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Aug 7, 2020 at 7:18 history closed ProfRob
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Duplicate of What are the various physical mechanisms for energy transfer to the photon during blackbody emission?
Aug 5, 2020 at 18:15 comment added tomd7824 thanks for the replies, i had read the links above before posting but the answers unfortunately hadn't helped. the answer below by Pablo is clearer to me
Aug 5, 2020 at 14:33 comment added user137289 Or this one physics.stackexchange.com/questions/3563/… The Sun is a dense plasma, opaque for visible light. There are no distinct H$^-$ ions.
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Aug 7, 2020 at 7:18
Aug 5, 2020 at 12:43 comment added ProfRob There are many duplicates. In the case of the Sun, the continuum radiation in the visible part of the spectrum is provided by free-free and free-bound transitions associated with H$^{-}$ ions. Objects that ONLY emit and absorb discrete line spectra cannot be blackbodies.
Aug 5, 2020 at 12:04 answer added Pablo Lemos timeline score: 2
Aug 5, 2020 at 11:32 history asked tomd7824 CC BY-SA 4.0