Which color radiates more heat in a spectrum

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can some one explain what chromatic dispersion is? and it helps me finding which colour radiates more heat in the given spectrum.
 
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Dispersion is a different phenomenon from emissivity. Dispersion is simply a quantification of how the refractive index of an object changes with wavelength, while emissivity is a quantification of how much energy is radiated from an object.