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Can infrared electromagnetic radaition hurt you?
As far as we know, infrared radiation is not harmful to humans. However, you must never leave a new born baby or an animal in a car on a sunny day. The infrared light will get trapped in the car and the baby or animal has a very high risk of dying. This is the same thing that happens to our atmosphere, causing global warming.
Why type of heat transfer is trapped by green houses?
its trapped by radiation. your welcome.
What are the dangers of infra-red?
The danger is, if the infrared is trapped by atmospheric gases it can cause greenhouse effect.
How Does aluminum foil prevent energy loss by radiation?
Aluminum foil is a conductor of heat energy. However, it does reflect radiation from heat sources, so it can reduce heat transfer through radiation. When aluminum foil is wrapped around something, pockets of air can be trapped. Trapped air is an excellent insulator against conduction and convection. However, if you want to prevent something like a can of soda from getting warm in your lunchbox, a wool sock will be a better insulator. Even paper toweling is better at insulating than aluminum foil when light is not shining.
Solar radiation that is not reflected is absorbed by what?
Solar radiation that is not reflected is absorbed by clouds, the atmosphere and the surface of the earth.Incoming solar radiation: 100%Reflected by the atmosphere: 6% : Absorbed by the atmosphere: 16%Continuing incoming solar radiation: 78%Reflected by clouds: 20% : Absorbed by clouds: 3%Continuing incoming solar radiation: 55%Reflected by the earth's surface: 4% : Absorbed by the earth's surface (lands and oceans): 51%Source: (NASA)
What type of radiation is trapped on the Earth's surface by the Greenhouse effect?
Infrared Radiation
What type of radiation is trapped on the earths surface by the green house effect?
Infrared radiation
What type of radiation is trapped on earth's surface by green house effect?
Infrared radiation
Can infrared light get through Earth's atmosphere?
Yes, some of it can. Infrared radiation is trapped by greenhouse gases, but not all of it is trapped. These gases only trap radiation in very specific parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, so there are "windows" where it can escape.
Accumulations of carbon dioxide can interfere with the transmissions of these rays?
infrared
What radiation is trapped close to your surface by the green house effect?
That would be infrared rays, this is due to the wavelength.
What type of radiation is trapped on earth's surface by the greenhouse effect?
terestrial
What are the effects of greenhouse gases on the atmosphere?
Greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide, water vapour and methane act to slow down the escape of infrared radiation from the atmosphere. It is this trapped radiation that warms up the planet.
What are the effects of the greenhouse effect on the atmosphere?
Greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide, water vapour and methane act to slow down the escape of infrared radiation from the atmosphere. It is this trapped radiation that warms up the planet.
When the heat that is usually radiated back into the atmosphere as infrared radiation gets trapped and forms a dome that holds heat in this is called the what effect?
green house effect
Why could an increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere cause global temperatures to rise?
more heat can be trapped in the atmosphere...
How can trapping infrared radiation by Earth's atmosphere be a bad thing?
Trapping infrared radiation (rising from the surface of the earth) keeps the atmosphere warm enough for life. This has been happening for hundreds of millions of years.However, when too much heat is trapped, as is happening now, then the atmosphere starts getting warmer. This is called global warming. This is a bad thing!
