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Well...If you look at the stellar spectral types, blue stars have higher
temperatures (~45,000 C) than the red ones (~3,500 C).

Tassos Papageorgiou


Quoting Ezequiel Panepucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

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> David J. Schuller wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 16:33 +0100, Fred. Vellieux wrote:
> >> On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, David J. Schuller wrote:
> >
> >> Well, not quite counter-physical: take iron and heat it, it will turn
> >> orange-red. And ice has a blue hue.
> >
> > Heat that red-hot iron even hotter, and you will eventually reach blue.
> > Every steel worker knows this.
>
> and if you keep pumping the blower it might turn into some
> sort of transparent plasma but I don't think most people are
> able to heat iron that much not even to blue-hot, on the
> other hand, every electrical stove will get red-hot on max power.
>
> So it might be counter-physical but it is common sense that red
> means hot and blue means cold.
>
> Zac
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