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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]>: > *** For details on how to be removed from this list visit the *** > *** CCP4 home page http://www.ccp4.ac.uk *** > > > 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 > -- A.C.(Tassos) Papageorgiou, PhD phone: +358 2 333 8012 (office) Senior Scientist, Group leader fax: +358 2 333 8000 Turku Centre for Biotechnology E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] BioCity, Turku URL: http://www.btk.utu.fi/~apapageo FIN-20521, Finland
