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How does heat transfer take place in vacuum? Give one example where heat is transferred in vacuum.

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In a vacuum, heat transfer takes place by the process of radiation. Radiation does not require a material medium.
For example, the heat from the Sun reaches us by radiation despite the intervening 150 million kilometres of vacuum.

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