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radiation temperature comparison table

Subject	is a kind of	has definition
temperature	quantity	A measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles of a system.
radiation temperature	temperature	The temperature that a blackbody of similar dimensions would have that radiated the same intensity at the same frequency.

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