Uses
A typical television remote control uses infared energy at a wavelength around 940 nanometers. Infrared lamps heat lamps often emit both visible and infrared energy at wavelengths between 500nm to 3000nm in length. They can be used to heat bathrooms or keep food warm. Heat lamps can also keep small animals and reptiles warm or even to keep eggs warm so they can hatch. We can sense some infrared energy as heat. Some objects are so hot they also emit visible light—such as a fire does. Other objects, such as humans, are not as hot and only emit only infrared waves. Our eyes cannot see these infrared waves but instruments that can sense infrared energy—such as night-vision goggles or infrared cameras–allow us to "see" the infrared waves emitting from warm objects such as humans and animals. Many objects in the universe are too cool and faint to be detected in visible light but can be detected in the infrared.
Infrared light lies between the visible and microwave portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Infrared light has a range of wavelengths, just like visible light has wavelengths that range from red light to violet. "Near infrared" light is closest in wavelength to visible light and "far infrared" is closer to the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The longer, far infrared wavelengths are about the size of a pin head and the shorter, near infrared ones are the size of cells, or are microscopic.
Far infrared waves are thermal. In other words, we experience this type of infrared radiation every day in the form of heat! The heat that we feel from sunlight, a fire, a radiator or a warm sidewalk is infrared. The temperature-sensitive nerve endings in our skin can detect the difference between inside body temperature and outside skin temperature
A typical television remote control uses infared energy at a wavelength around 940 nanometers. Infrared lamps heat lamps often emit both visible and infrared energy at wavelengths between 500nm to 3000nm in length. They can be used to heat bathrooms or keep food warm. Heat lamps can also keep small animals and reptiles warm or even to keep eggs warm so they can hatch. We can sense some infrared energy as heat. Some objects are so hot they also emit visible light—such as a fire does. Other objects, such as humans, are not as hot and only emit only infrared waves. Our eyes cannot see these infrared waves but instruments that can sense infrared energy—such as night-vision goggles or infrared cameras–allow us to "see" the infrared waves emitting from warm objects such as humans and animals. Many objects in the universe are too cool and faint to be detected in visible light but can be detected in the infrared.
Infrared light lies between the visible and microwave portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Infrared light has a range of wavelengths, just like visible light has wavelengths that range from red light to violet. "Near infrared" light is closest in wavelength to visible light and "far infrared" is closer to the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The longer, far infrared wavelengths are about the size of a pin head and the shorter, near infrared ones are the size of cells, or are microscopic.
Far infrared waves are thermal. In other words, we experience this type of infrared radiation every day in the form of heat! The heat that we feel from sunlight, a fire, a radiator or a warm sidewalk is infrared. The temperature-sensitive nerve endings in our skin can detect the difference between inside body temperature and outside skin temperature
Positive Effects
The absorption of the infrared rays by the body begins with the expulsion of carbon dioxide. All living bodies have toxins (waste material, poisons) which accumulate at the body joints. The Biomat's far infrared rays help speed up the processes that get rid of them, mainly your lymph system which controls when and how much you sweat.
The absorption of the infrared rays by the body begins with the expulsion of carbon dioxide. All living bodies have toxins (waste material, poisons) which accumulate at the body joints. The Biomat's far infrared rays help speed up the processes that get rid of them, mainly your lymph system which controls when and how much you sweat.
Negative Effects People who work in industries where they are exposed to infrared radiation for long periods of time may experience eye damage. Exposure to intense infrared radiation can damage the lens and cornea of the eye. This is why staring at the sun is harmful. Infrared waves in high enough concentrations can also damage skin and tissues via burns. Infrared waves are also involved in the greenhouse effect. The earth's surface and the clouds above it absorb radiation from the sun's rays and reemit it as infrared radiation back out into the atmosphere.