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a hypothetical object capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it
a black body maintained at a constant temperature is a full radiator at that temperature because the radiation reaching and leaving it must be in equilibrium
How To Use black body In A Sentence
- They resembled green humanoid lizards, except for the black bodysuits and mechanical claws.
- More likely is the reradiation from the surface of the earth to the black body of space at night. The Volokh Conspiracy » Climate Scientists, Unfiltered
- I had also found a more suitable top, a black body hugging woollen skivvy.
- In breeding plumage, it has a black body and head, silvery gray wings and a white vent.
- Nonetheless, Claire fetishizes the black body as she projects her own preoccupation with flesh upon her lover, Paupaulekejo.
- But now, rather than the thin black dress, she was dressed head to toe in a black bodysuit that seemed to absorb the light around it.
- To measure leaf reflectance, the leaf was sandwiched between the nonreflecting, polyurethane black body and the light probe.
- When I unzipped the black body bag the cold face of my mother greeted me.
- She was wearing black jeans, a red jumper with a lion motif and a black bodywarmer when she disappeared.
- The radiation is completely decoherent, thermal and indistiguishable from any other black body source observed at a great distance. The Black Hole War