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black body

noun

  1. physics a hypothetical body that would be capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it Also calledfull radiator
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Minutes later more remains were recovered from the rubble and carried away in a black body bag.

From BBC

One night in October, Yukov returned from a mission near Sloviansk with black body bags strapped to the roof of his car.

Bit by bit scores of others emerged, their shiny black bodies, flailing limbs, and beady eyes glinting in the early-morning sun.

His corpse is carefully removed and placed inside a black body bag.

From BBC

A Reuters reporter at the crash site on Thursday morning saw men carrying away black body bags on stretchers.

From Reuters

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