how does the laser thermometer measure how hot/cold something is, by just shining on it with a few rays of laserlight?

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how does the laser thermometer measure how hot/cold something is, by just shining on it with a few rays of laserlight?

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They have little lenses that focus the infrared light coming off of the surface of your skin into a detector (thermopile). The detector turns the light into heat, the heat into electricity, and then reads out the result.

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