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line blanketing
The decrease in intensity of a star's spectrum due to many closely spaced, unresolved absorption lines. Line blanketing is particularly noticeable in the case of cool stars, the atmospheres of which contain many different types of atoms and molecules that tend to absorb at shorter (bluer) wavelengths and reemit in the red and infrared.
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