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- In radio source
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- In heat: Heat transfer
- In heat transfer
nuclear weapons
- In nuclear weapon: Thermal radiation
statistical mechanics
- In electromagnetism: Discovery of the electron and its ramifications

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Add new Web site: PNAS - Temperature-independent thermal radiation.	Emily Rodriguez	Dec 25, 2024
	Add new Web site: PNAS - Temperature-independent thermal radiation.	Emily Rodriguez	Dec 24, 2024
	Add new Web site: AIP Publishing - Thermal radiation at the nanoscale and applications.	Grace Young	Oct 15, 2024
	Add new Web site: Open Oregon Educational Resources - Body Physics: Motion to Metabolism - Thermal Radiation Spectra.	Gloria Lotha	Jun 13, 2024
	Add new Web site: West Texas A&M University - Science Questions with Surprising Answers - Is there a difference between thermal radiation and infrared radiation?	Gloria Lotha	Mar 12, 2024
	Add new Web site: PNAS - Temperature-independent thermal radiation.	Gloria Lotha	Sep 25, 2023
	Add new Web site: Physics LibreTexts - Thermal Radiation.	Emily Rodriguez	Oct 08, 2022
	Corrected display issue.	Adam Augustyn	Dec 07, 2018
	Add new Web site: Academia - Thermal radiation heat transfer: Including wavelenght dependies into modelling.	Aakanksha Gaur	Nov 05, 2018
	Add new Web site: The Scripps Institution of Oceanography - Satellite Geodesy - Thermal Radiation.	Aakanksha Gaur	Nov 05, 2018
	Add new Web site: MedlinePlus - Radiation Exposure.	Thinley Kalsang Bhutia	Sep 02, 2016
	Added new Web site: Taftan Data - Thermal Radiation.	Shiveta Singh	Mar 23, 2009
	Added new Web site: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research - Atmospheric Processes - Radiation.	Kanchan Gupta	Apr 09, 2008
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998