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A region of the electromagnetic radiation spectrum where wavelengths range from about 700 nm to 1mm

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Why do we feel heat from infrared light but not from shorter wavelengths?

This is probably due to Planck's radiation law and Wien's displacement law giving the wavelength of maximum energy emission, which shows that for temperatures of usual very hot bodies on the order of …
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Why do we feel heat from infrared light but not from shorter wavelengths?

I post this in response to the answer posted by Quantumwhisp, which explains a higher body heating by infrared light(IR) compared to visible/ultraviolet(UV)light by an increase of light absorption coe …
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