Infrared Heating: How It Works

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How does an infrared photon leading to heating?
 

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anantchowdhary said:
How does an infrared photon leading to heating?
I've answered this in the other thread, the energy of IR photons correspond to the energies separating the quantum states of the molecular vibrations, its not only atoms and electrons that have quantum states...
 

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