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Emissivity is mostly what matters in this case.

Whether the material is reflective or transmissive just means you'll be "seeing" IR sources reflected off the target or from behind the target, respectively. You do have to keep that in mind if there's an object not in ambient temperature in those locations (e.g. a clear sky is of very low temperature, a person is around 35C).




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