Pijaran
Tampilan

Pijaran adalah pancaran radiasi elektromagnetik (termasuk cahaya tampak) dari benda panas akibat kenaikan suhu.[1] Istilah tersebut (untuk bahasa Inggrisnya) berasal dari kata kerja berbahasa Latin incandescere, untuk becahaya putih.[2]
Lihat pula
[sunting | sunting sumber]
Referensi
[sunting | sunting sumber]- ^ Dionysius Lardner (1833). Treatise on Heat. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman. hlm. 341.
The state in which a heated body, naturally incapable of emitting light, becomes luminous, is called a state of incandescence.
- ^ John E. Bowman (1856). An Introduction to Practical Chemistry, Including Analysis (edisi ke-Second American). Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea. hlm. 283.
incandesce 0-1860.