Black-body radiation has a characteristic, continuous frequency spectrum
that depends only on the body's temperature, called the Planck spectrum or
Planck's law. The spectrum is peaked at a characteristic frequency that
shifts to higher frequencies with increasing temperature, and at room
temperature most of the emission is in the infrared region of the
electromagnetic spectrum. As the temperature increases past about 500
degrees Celsius, black bodies start to emit significant amounts of visible
light. Viewed in the dark, the first faint glow appears as a "ghostly"
grey. With rising temperature, the glow becomes visible even when there is
some background surrounding light: first as a dull red, then yellow, and
eventually a "dazzling bluish-white" as the temperature rises.

This appearance is caused by a distribution of all wavelengths of light
 more or less based on temperature in blackbody radiation.

In laser radiation, only a single frequency appears. Light from a infrared
laser cannot be seen.

The Rossi reactor may be acting like an infrared laser since few visible
wavelengths are seen at 1400C,

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