[Amps] Black Heat Shields

[Ken Brown]

>  So the
> bottom line is that all things absorb radiation to some degree, thermalize
> it, and reradiate it back out.  A theoretical blackbody does this perfectly,
> everything else less so, to varying degrees, but the basic concept is the
> same. 
And the reason that they call it a blackbody is that black bodies do it 
( absorb radiation AND reradiate) better than any other color.

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