Philippe Smet on Nostr: A thermal camera detects long wavelength (8-14µm) #infrared. Glass windows are not ...
A thermal camera detects long wavelength (8-14µm) #infrared. Glass windows are not transparent for this radiation, so a thermal camera cannot look through them. Some (thin) plastics pass this infrared 👇, but for IR lenses, other materials are used, like #germanium. #physics
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