Infrared Image of Whitest Paint (IMAGE)

Purdue University

Infrared Image of Whitest Paint

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An infrared camera shows how a sample of the whitest white paint (the dark purple square in the middle) actually cools the board below ambient temperature, something that not even commercial "heat rejecting" paints do.

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Purdue University/Joseph Peoples

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