And what one is doing with the photons can impact the terminology too.
For instance, in a hydrogen bomb, the fission trigger dumps an enormous, and nearly instantaneous blast of x-rays towards the secondary. This blast of x-ray photons heats the materials around the secondary, even though they are not infrared photons and causes an enormous increase in pressure that crushes the secondary and initiates it's thermonuclear reaction.
Radio frequency photons are used in particle accelerators to accelerate particles.
Microwave ovens use radio frequency photons, much weaker than infrared photons to warm up your oatmeal because the microwaves are tuned to a frequency the water molecules absorb and it increases their vibrations, which is friction, and they heat up.
Ultra violet photons can cause florescence in some materials that cause them to emit visible light (frequently of specific colors, although phosphorus makes white) instead of heating the materials.
For instance, in a hydrogen bomb, the fission trigger dumps an enormous, and nearly instantaneous blast of x-rays towards the secondary. This blast of x-ray photons heats the materials around the secondary, even though they are not infrared photons and causes an enormous increase in pressure that crushes the secondary and initiates it's thermonuclear reaction.
Radio frequency photons are used in particle accelerators to accelerate particles.
Microwave ovens use radio frequency photons, much weaker than infrared photons to warm up your oatmeal because the microwaves are tuned to a frequency the water molecules absorb and it increases their vibrations, which is friction, and they heat up.
Ultra violet photons can cause florescence in some materials that cause them to emit visible light (frequently of specific colors, although phosphorus makes white) instead of heating the materials.
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