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I understand the basics of blackbody radiation and incandescence in general: as the temperature of objects increases, atomic vibration increases, electrons are knocked-up, then de-exite releasing photons, etc etc.
My question is, why is the blackbody curve completely free of signature spectral lines caused by the elemental make-up of the radiator? Why, for example, does the radiation curve not look like an x-ray emission, with both the bremstralung curve, plus characteristic k-lines?
My question is, why is the blackbody curve completely free of signature spectral lines caused by the elemental make-up of the radiator? Why, for example, does the radiation curve not look like an x-ray emission, with both the bremstralung curve, plus characteristic k-lines?