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[–] 86 points 11 months ago (9 children)

1000°c seems accurate:

Fun little science fact: Heated objects glow the same colors no matter what they are made of. It's called Black Body Radiation. The color chart shows what temperatures correspond with various "colors" of glow.

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  • [–] 28 points 11 months ago

    Heated objects glow the same colors no matter what they are made of

    True only if light emissions aren't dominated by chemical effects or filtered by structural effects. Plenty of materials burn at different colors. Although if you wait out the chemical reactions and keep it heated, it does eventually end up with just blackbody radiation too 🤷

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago

    But corrected by emissivity factor. Emissivity factor is also not constant, and changes as both a function of material and temperature. Probably associated with band gap fluctuating wrt. Temperature

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Aluminium doesn't glow, even when molten though?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Eventually will glow human eye visible if you keep heating it past useful temperatures. 1000'C+ starts getting red hot.

    Doesn’t emit light as readily as iron does, especially with iron’s oxide layer building up when heated.

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