Black Body Radiation.

> At 2:18 PM -0700 8/10/01, Diamond, Ndege wrote:

> Cure my ignorance. What is a blackbody emitter and blackbody curve?

Black body is the relationship between temperature and color causing the
absorption of radiation. An object will radiate to some degree no matter what.
The Black Body term derives from the ideal source of heat. Different objects
relate to that benchmark in varying degrees.

see
http://www.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/black_body_radiation.html

and

http://www.chem.ualberta.ca/~plambeck/che/p101/p01212.htm