thermal radiation

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By using thermal radiation, the system projects a carefully tailored heat pattern onto the mirror.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2025

All hot bodies emit light, and a universal principle known as Kirchhoff’s law of thermal radiation states that reciprocal materials in equilibrium must absorb and emit thermal radiation at the same rate.

From Scientific American • Nov. 18, 2022

They trap solar radiation, which is converted into thermal radiation on the Earth’s surface of which some is reradiated back into the atmosphere.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

They also neglected to include Kirchhoff’s law of thermal radiation in their thermal models of the asteroids.

From Science Magazine • May 23, 2016

I knew if I got close enough to him, the intense thermal radiation he was emitting would scorch me.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram