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Old 09-21-2012, 11:46 AM   #561
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Originally Posted by subatoy View Post
thanks for this but I still don't understand this logic:
"It's trying to lose heat from the inside, so black is the best colour to radiate that heat into the cooling air."
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I thought black (and all colours to a degree) absorb light rather than heat? But given that black absorbs more light (a larger band of wavelengths) - it tends to raise the energy of the object and in turn radiates this energy on a different wavelength (infrared -> heat) at a higher rate.

Not sure how that would apply in an enclosed dark space.
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