[thelist] [ot] what is Color Temperature ?

[Alessandro]

>
> Fluorescent tubes and other charged gas have spikes of colors (think
> histogram) emitted rather than a curve of all the colors leading up to the
> highest color temperature.
>

They do, more like separate bands than spikes (think quantum physics here).
You are not necessarily wrong in your statements. Their spectral radiation
is 'equivalent' to the spectrum of a heated black body at a certain
temperature. It is just a reference. After all black body radiation is one
of the fundamental examples of quantum theory.

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Alessandro