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► Cove a part of the surface of the measuring object with a black, flat paint with an emissivity of 0.98. Adjust 
the  emissivity  of  your  infrared  thermometer  to  0.98  and  take  the  temperature  of  the  colored  surface. 
Afterwards,  determine  the  temperature  of  a  directly  adjacent  area  and  modify  the  emissivity  until  the 
measured value corresponds to the temperature of the colored surface. 
   
Figure 50: Shiny metal surface left and blackened metal surface right 
 
CAUTION: On all three methods the object temperature must be different from ambient temperature.