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Infrared radiation, or simply infrared or IR, is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with longer wavelengths than those of visible light, and is therefore invisible, although it is sometimes loosely called infrared light.

It extends from the nominal red edge of the visible spectrum at 700 nanometers (frequency 430 THz), to 1000000 nm (300 GHz) (although people can see infrared up to at least 1050 nm in experiments).

Most of the thermal radiation emitted by objects near room temperature is infrared.

Like all EMR, IR carries radiant energy, and behaves both like a wave and like its quantum particle, the photon.

A data logger (also datalogger or data recorder) is an electronic device that records data over time or in relation to location either with a built in instrument or sensor or via external instruments and sensors.

Increasingly, but not entirely, they are based on a digital processor (or computer).

They generally are small, battery powered, portable, and equipped with a microprocessor, internal memory for data storage, and sensors.

Some data loggers interface with a personal computer, and use software to activate the data logger and view and analyze the collected data, while others have a local interface device (keypad, LCD) and can be used as a stand-alone device.

A thermometer is a device that measures temperature or a temperature gradient.

A thermometer has two important elements: (1) a temperature sensor (e.g. the bulb of a mercury-in-glass thermometer) in which some physical change occurs with temperature, and (2) some means of converting this physical change into a numerical value (e.g. the visible scale that is marked on a mercury-in-glass thermometer).

Thermometers are widely used in industry to control and regulate processes, in the study of weather, in medicine, and in scientific research.

A thermocouple is an electrical device consisting of two dissimilar conductors forming electrical junctions at differing temperatures.

A thermocouple produces a temperature-dependent voltage as a result of the thermoelectric effect, and this voltage can be interpreted to measure temperature.

Thermocouples are a widely used type of temperature sensor.

A thermistor is a type of resistor whose resistance is dependent on temperature, more so than in standard resistors.

The word is a portmanteau of thermal and resistor.

Thermistors are widely used as inrush current limiter, temperature sensors (Negative Temperature Coefficient or NTC type typically), self-resetting overcurrent protectors, and self-regulating heating elements (Positive Temperature Coefficient or PTC type typically).