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Iwonder

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02/12/15

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Originally posted by IWONDER ↑

Can you explain further.
If oxygen and nitrogen are heated by conduction; say from hot sand and rocks; aren't they absorbing infrared as all hot objects emit infrared.

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Column 1The primary source of infrared radiation is heat or thermal radiation. This is the radiation produced by the motion of atoms and molecules in an object. The higher the temperature, the more the atoms and molecules move and the more infrared radiation they produce. Any object which has a temperature i.e. anything above absolute zero (-459.67 degrees Fahrenheit or -273.15 degrees Celsius or 0 degrees Kelvin), radiates in the infrared. Absolute zero is the temperature at which all atomic and molecular motion ceases. Even objects that we think of as being very cold, such as an ice cube, emit infrared. When an object is not quite hot enough to radiate visible light, it will emit most of its energy in the infrared. For example, hot charcoal may not give off light but it does emit infrared radiation which we feel as heat. The warmer the object, the more infrared radiation it emits. The infrared image of a landing space shuttle (left) shows the how the tiles underneath the shuttle have been heated during re-entry.

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1 Courtesy of Meditherm Humans, at normal body temperature, radiate most strongly in the infrared, at a wavelength of about 10 microns (A micron is the term commonly used in astronomy for a micrometer or one millionth of a meter). In the image to the left, the red areas are the warmest, followed by yellow, green and blue (coolest). The image to the right shows a cat in the infrared. The yellow-white areas are the warmest and the purple areas are the coldest. This image gives us a different view of a familiar animal as well as information that we could not get from a visible light picture. Notice the cold nose and the heat from the cat's eyes, mouth and ears.

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This person claims N2 and O2 do absorb infrared radiation,
http://www.spinonthat.com/co2_files/o2_n2_ir_absoption.html
Humans emit infrared radiation, this is why trapped heat in a blanket helps keep us warm on a cold night. This hot air is hot nitrogen and oxygen; or is it just hot CO2?

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