Skimming OP, one thought. My very fuzzy understanding is that, while flame has a spectra shaped like a blackbody curve, it isn't one. Instead, that's the soot emission spectra (due to its diverse mess of bonds). The BBR spectra is much redder and dimmer. This misconception appears widespread.
Meta-observation: Creating fun and correct science education stories is hard, requiring multi-year collaborative effort from many people. It seems a pity there's nowhere on the web to build such.
... Wikipedia has "no original research". The US national science education wiki was/is? just a search engine for high-barrier low-quality paywalled science education magazines. Here in the wretched past, the best we manage to do is accumulate scattered blog and discussion threads. Disrupt, please?
Skimming OP, one thought. My very fuzzy understanding is that, while flame has a spectra shaped like a blackbody curve, it isn't one. Instead, that's the soot emission spectra (due to its diverse mess of bonds). The BBR spectra is much redder and dimmer. This misconception appears widespread.
Meta-observation: Creating fun and correct science education stories is hard, requiring multi-year collaborative effort from many people. It seems a pity there's nowhere on the web to build such.
... Wikipedia has "no original research". The US national science education wiki was/is? just a search engine for high-barrier low-quality paywalled science education magazines. Here in the wretched past, the best we manage to do is accumulate scattered blog and discussion threads. Disrupt, please?