Pijaran adalah pancaran radiasi elektromagnetik (termasuk cahaya tampak) dari benda panas akibat kenaikan suhu. Istilah tersebut (untuk bahasa Inggrisnya) berasal dari kata kerja berbahasa Latin incandescere, untuk becahaya putih.
Lihat pula sunting
- Daftar sumber cahaya
Referensi sunting
- Dionysius Lardner (1833). Treatise on Heat. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman. hlm. 341.
The state in which a heated body, naturally incapable of emitting light, becomes luminous, is called a state of incandescence.
- John E. Bowman (1856). An Introduction to Practical Chemistry, Including Analysis (edisi ke-Second American). Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea. hlm. 283.
incandesce 0-1860.