# #Mon Aug 09 12:05:15 CEST 2010 Text__l7YWEKOdEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_text=

In 1860, Kirchhoff shows that a body only emits light of the color it absorbs.

A black body absorbs all light and accordingly emits light in all colors. Its color spectrum depends only on its temperature.

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