Color Names

Incandescence

Glowing filament, just before it melts into a puddle of light.

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Incandescence is a rich orange, close to yellow.

It can be described as rich, golden, warm and bright.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Incandescence

Incandescence (novel)

Incandescence is a 2008 science fiction novel by Australian author Greg Egan. The book is based on the idea that the theory of general relativity could be discovered by a pre-industrial civilisation.

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Thermal radiation

Thermal radiation is electromagnetic radiation emitted by the thermal motion of particles in matter. All matter with a temperature greater than absolute zero emits thermal radiation. The emission of energy arises from a combination of electronic, molecular, and lattice oscillations in a material.

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incandescence

Noun

  1. the emission of visible light by a hot body
  2. the light so emitted
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