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Colour Temperature
Term that describes the colour of light sources; literally, the temperature at which a blackbody emits enough radiant energy to evoke a colour equivalent to that coming from a given light source. A high colour temperature corresponds to bluer light, a low colour temperature to yellow light. The colour temperature of daylight is around 5500K.
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