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I’ve been digging around trying to get at the physical basis for the black body spectrum. Say I have a neutral gas,non ionized. This has its own discrete spectrum. Are the mechanisms of line broadening the reason why we seek continuous spectrum in the back body curve? That’s question 1. No 2 relates to what I’ve read as the cause of the B.B. curve,ie electron acceleration in atoms via collisions. If two atoms inelastically collide,can em radiation be emitted without either atom having a change in the orbitals,say by cloud deformation and relaxation? Thanks