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Originally posted by JSimmons
I may have to switch to visible light - it's not the preferred method, but it would result in a lot less in terms of electronics.
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But "a lot less" what?
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I don't know what spectrum of IR I'm after, but the one that generates the least amount of heat is preferred. How many spectrums are there? 
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The entire range of IR, from near IR to far IR, goes from a wavelength of 1 micron to 1 mm. Roughly, about 400 THz to 300 GHz.
Not sure if that helps you, since I have no idea what you're intending to do.
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Either way, I still need water that light is either diffused in, or where light is almost completely blocked.
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That has everything to do with how intense the incoming IR that you want to block is.
All organic materials will absorb a great deal of energy at a few narrow bandwidths of IR, which works great for organic spectroscopy. Not so great for absorbing a wide range of the IR spectrum. Nor can I conceive of any reason for someone to want a fluid to absorb energy from an IR source completely, or any means in which that can be done.
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