1000°c seems accurate:
Fun little science fact: Heated objects glow the same colors no matter what they are made of. It's called Black Body Radiation. The color chart shows what temperatures correspond with various "colors" of glow.
Heated objects glow the same colors no matter what they are made of
True only if light emissions aren't dominated by chemical effects or filtered by structural effects. Plenty of materials burn at different colors. Although if you wait out the chemical reactions and keep it heated, it does eventually end up with just blackbody radiation too 🤷
But corrected by emissivity factor. Emissivity factor is also not constant, and changes as both a function of material and temperature. Probably associated with band gap fluctuating wrt. Temperature
Unless it is a gray body. For somewhat accurate measurements you must do math.
Aluminium doesn't glow, even when molten though?
That simply means it must melt below 600°C.
A quick wiki check says it melts at 660. I guess if you're in a really dark room, you could see the glow.
Real bodies are gray, not black.
All bodies matter.
Eventually will glow human eye visible if you keep heating it past useful temperatures. 1000'C+ starts getting red hot.
Doesn’t emit light as readily as iron does, especially with iron’s oxide layer building up when heated.
Which makes iron a suitable substitute for tungsten at 3000 C
Related, but off topic.
If you ever visit Taiwan, be sure to eat the local pineapples. We have one of the sweetest pineapple and we eat the core of the pineapple. The core is actually crunchy, like the constancy of a crispy pear.
good to know
Iron? I suspect otherwise... My dear RHNB, I miss your red hot nickel ball.
Why was the pineapple discarded? They could have eaten it 😭
Don't worry. It's a black deck, so the graveyard is exactly where the pineapple wants to be.
and what happened to the card
It got dissed.
What it did to deserve that, we might never know. . .
I know, right? I'll even eat the stickers, nothing goes to waste!
I believe it's just the skin
Right but it says “the skin of a discarded pineapple” — meaning the pineapple was discarded, not the skin. Just a silly grammar joke.
It's only valid if it's the RHNB.
My friend calls pineapples 'Dragon Eggs' and tossed one into a bonfire. Pulled it out later to have the most delicious roasted sweet mythical egg ever
Mother of pineapples
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