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Imagine: Calore raggiante Radiant heat
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Expression used in the nineteenth century to designate infrared rays, i.e., radiation invisible to the human eye, with wavelengths between 0.7 thousandths of a millimeter and 1 millimeter. Hot red bodies, for example, are sources of infrared rays.

 
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