Thermal radiation and energy balance

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Question 25
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A geologist studies the thermal emission from a sample of freshly erupted basaltic lava using a spectrometer.

Figure 1 shows the recorded spectral intensity of the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the basalt sample across different wavelengths.

Figure 1

Describe how the intensity of the emitted radiation varies with wavelength in Figure 1.

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