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Figure 2-9 Heating a Bar of Iron (a–c) The sequence of photographs along the top row shows how the appearance of a flame changes with temperature. As the temperature of the torch flame is reduced, it radiates most of its energy at longer and longer wavelengths and becomes less blue and more red in color. (d–f) The stars shown have roughly the same surface temperatures as the flames above them.