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A black body absorbs more heat than a shiny body. Why it is so???

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Viraat Gupta

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9 Dec 2011 16:31:19 IST

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A black body is an idealized physical body that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation. hence absorbs more heat ( infra - red waves ) than any other bodydark colours tends to absorb more EM spectrum waves

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