jefff@cadovax.UUCP (Jeff Fields) (11/15/84)
In a recent article Tom Haapanen writes: > ....................................... Therefore, a 100% black pot > will radiate *no heat* at all. Wrongo. Sorry bud, but you should have followed your own advice of: > .......... This person should have at least consulted a basic > physics text. In it you will find that the color black is not only the best absorber of heat, it is the best radiator of heat as well. Parenthetical note: steam heat radiators are usually painted silver so as to minimize heat radiation. If they were black then they would radiate too much heat, causing oven-like conditions. - Jeff Fields -- I once was sad I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.