Last edited 10 Jun 2022

Blackbody

Short Guide: Thermal Imaging in the Historic Environment, published, on 1 March 2015 by Historic Environment Scotland, defines a blackbody as: ‘A theoretical object which is in perfect thermal equilibrium – all incident radiation is absorbed and emitted with 100% efficiency. As a perfect radiator it neither reflects, nor transmits, radiation.’

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