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1-415: Red heat is a practice of using colours to determine the temperature of metal Red Heat may also refer to: Red heat The practice of using colours to determine the temperature of a piece of (usually) ferrous metal comes from blacksmithing . Long before thermometers were widely available, it was necessary to know what state the metal was in for heat treating it and the only way to do this