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    Incandescence

    Incandescence is the emission of electromagnetic radiation (including visible light)


    from a hot body as a result of its temperature.[1] The term derives from the Latin
    verb incandescere, to glow white.[2]

    Incandescence is a special case of thermal radiation. Incandescence usually refers


    specifically to visible light, while thermal radiation refers also to infrared or any
    other electromagnetic radiation.

    For information on the intensity and spectrum (color) of incandescence, see thermal
    radiation. Hot metal work glows with visible
    light. This thermal radiation also
    extends into the infrared, invisible to
    the human eye and the camera the
    Contents image was taken with, but aninfrared
    camera could show it (See
    Observation and use Thermography).
    Figurative use
    See also
    References
    External links

    Observation and use


    In practice, virtually all solid or liquid substances start to glow around 798 K
    (525 °C) (977 ˚F), with a mildly dull red color, whether or not a chemical reaction
    takes place that produces light as a result of an exothermic process. This limit is
    called the Draper point. The incandescence does not vanish below that temperature,
    but it is too weak in the visible spectrum to be perceivable.

    At higher temperatures, the substance becomes brighter and its color changes from
    red towards white and finally blue.

    Incandescence is exploited in incandescent light bulbs, in which a filament is heated


    to a temperature at which a fraction of the radiation falls in the visible spectrum. The
    majority of the radiation however, is emitted in the infrared part of the spectrum, The incandescent metal embers of
    the spark used to light this Bunsen
    rendering incandescent lights relatively inefficient as a light source.[3] If the filament
    burner emit light ranging in color from
    could be made hotter, efficiency would increase; however, there are currently no
    white to orange to red or to blue. This
    materials able to withstand such temperatures which would be appropriate for use in change correlates with their
    lamps. temperature as they cool in the air.
    The flame itself is not incandescent,
    More efficient light sources, such asfluorescent lamps and LEDs, do not function by as its blue color comes from the
    incandescence.[4] quantized transitions that result from
    the oxidation of CH radicals.
    Sunlight is the incandescence of the "white hot" surface of thesun.

    Figurative use
    The word incandescent is also used figuratively to describe a person who is so angry that they are imagined to glow or burn red hot
    or white hot.[5]

    See also
    Red heat
    List of light sources

    References
    1. Dionysius Lardner (1833). Treatise on Heat (https://books.google.com/b
    ooks?id=jjYIAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA341). Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown,
    Green & Longman. Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20171221063
    639/https://books.google.com/books?id=jjYIAAAAIAAJ&pg=P A341) from
    the original on 2017-12-21."The state in which a heated body, naturally
    incapable of emitting light, becomes luminous, is called a state of
    incandescence."
    2. John E. Bowman (1856).An Introduction to Practical Chemistry,
    Including Analysis (https://books.google.com/books?id=ffTcf4FGOx4C&
    pg=PA283&dq=incandesce+date:0-1860)(Second American ed.).
    Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea.Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/
    20171221063640/https://books.google.com/books?id=f fTcf4FGOx4C&p
    g=PA283&dq=incandesce+date:0-1860)from the original on 2017-12-
    21.
    3. William Elgin Wickenden (1910).Illumination and Photometry(https://bo
    oks.google.com/books?id=gVZDAAAAIAAJ&pg=P A3&dq=incandescent
    +low-efficiency+blackbody). McGraw-Hill. Archived (https://web.archive.
    org/web/20171221063640/https://books.google.com/books?id=gVZDAA
    AAIAAJ&pg=PA3&dq=incandescent+low-efficiency+blackbody) from the
    original on 2017-12-21.
    4. Koones, Sheri (2012-10-01).Prefabulous + Almost Off the Grid: Your
    Path to Building an Energy-Independent Home(https://books.google.co
    m/books?id=Tdrp2F3BExAC&pg=PT115&dq=fluorescent+light+and+LE
    Ds,+do+not+function+by+incandescence.&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi
    Q-rWGv5rYAhVL3GMKHbtuAacQ6AEIRzAF#v=onepage&q=fluorescen
    The visible color of an object heated
    t%20light%20and%20LEDs,%20do%20not%20function%20by%20incan
    to incandescence (from 550°C to
    descence.&f=false). Abrams. ISBN 9781613123966.
    1300°C (1022°F to 2372°F))
    5. Example 1:'...the stadium positively crackled with the incandescent
    anger of anguished supporters.' Mark Wilson, 'Rangers 1 Unirea 4',
    Daily Mail, 21 October 2009 "Archived copy" (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1221762/Rangers-1-Uni
    rea-Urziceni-4-Groundhog-day-Gers-humbled-Dan-Petrescus-men.html) . Archived (https://archive.is/201208020911
    14/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1221762/Rangers-1-Unirea-Urziceni-4-Groundhog-day-Gers-hum
    bled-Dan-Petrescus-men.html)from the original on 2012-08-02. Retrieved 2009-11-01.. Example 2: '...there's
    something very funny about incandescent anger .' Mark Fisher, 'Jerry has a cross to bear',The Scotsman, 5 March
    2006 [1] (http://news.scotsman.com/jerryspringer/Jerry-has-a-cross-to.2756197.jp) .

    External links
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