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▲ unpleasurable 4 hours ago

Do flames emit UV?

▲officeplant 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, but how much UV depends on what's burnin / how hot its burning. Otherwise they mostly put out IR.

We use UV/IR combo Flame detectors at work for this purpose.

▲bell-cot 3 hours ago | parent [-]

IIR, hydrogen flames can emit enough of their energy in the UV for that to be a serious issue - both direct human exposure, and degradation of exposed surfaces and equipment.

▲devindotcom 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

a little but not much, from my quick look online.

▲metalman 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

lived with candles and kerocene lanterns, etc for years and the odd bug will go nuts and spiral in, but not very many but all in all, there are way less bugs everywhere now

▲aaomidi 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No but they emit smoke