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hohlraum definition

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a laboratory device to produce blackbody radiation.  Consists of a closed metal tube, blackened on the inside, with a narrow slit cut into one of the flat ends.  On heating the tube the radiation escaping from the slit is virtually identical with that expected from a blackbody.

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