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The temperature where metal forgets its color and starts impersonating the sun.
means So intensely hot that a material glows with a near-white light — or, figuratively, at the peak of intensity, anger, or excitement.
from From the way heated metal climbs through a visible color ladder: as it gets hotter it glows dull red, then orange, then yellow, and finally a glaring white as the radiation it emits spreads across all visible wavelengths at once. Smiths and metalworkers read these colors for centuries to judge temperature, and 'white hot' marked the fiercest stage. The figurative sense — 'white-hot rage,' a 'white-hot streak' — borrows that same idea of heat pushed to its blinding limit.
- Hotter than red
- White heat tops 1300°C, well past glowing red
- Color ladder
- Metal climbs from red to orange to blinding white
- Blackbody trick
- All colors emit at once, blending into white
- Smith's eye
- Old blacksmiths judged heat by hue alone
- Star math
- White stars run hotter than our yellow sun
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