I immediately imagine a silver knife blade held up to a wood fire.
Does it really get hotter without limit?
Brian Whatcott Wichita, KS
Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com> wrote:
While researching IR on that other list, I discovered tabulated the IR
emissivity of very many materials. My quick anecdotal study leads me to
believe (excluding surface roughness) that good conductors have low
emissivity and visa versa. this is, of course, opposite to
reflectivity, whose classical explanation is more than a century old
(Drude).