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Q.Can a perfect blackbody be realized in practice?

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Not exactly — but Ferry's blackbody (a double-walled evacuated sphere with a tiny aperture and lamp-black coating) realizes one to an excellent approximation, with the aperture acting as the blackbody.

No real surface absorbs every wavelength completely — lamp black absorbs about 97%. But a near-perfect blackbody is realized in practice by Ferry's construction: a double-walled hollow sphere with a tiny aperture. Radiation entering the aperture undergoes multiple reflections on the lamp-black inner surface and has negligible chance of escaping, so effectively ALL of it is absorbed — the aperture behaves as a perfect blackbody.

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Not exactly — but Ferry's blackbody (a double-walled evacuated sphere with a tiny aperture and lamp-black coating) realizes one to an excellent approximation, with the aperture acting as the blackbody.

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