A _______ surface is a poor radiator of heat.

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Good absorbers of heat are good emitters of heat.
The bodies whose temperature is not more than $0 K$ , can not emit radiant energy and thus are treated as bad radiators of heat.
Hence, a shiny or silver-coated surfaces are bad radiators of heat.

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