What is infrared?
Very simply, infrared is part of the light spectrum!
In the 1800's Sir Frederick William Herschel discovered that an area of the light spectrum produced heat. He directed light through a glass prism to create a spectrum and measured the temperature of each colour. He found that the temperature increased from the violet to the red end of the spectrum.
He continued to measure the temperature beyond the red end of the spectrum in a region where no light was visible and found that this area had the greatest temperature of all. This area has become known as the infrared part of the spectrum.
The warmth given off by the sun and why we feel warm when standing in the sun is because of this infrared energy.
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