Thermal camera Hairdyer gap paradox

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The IR 'hairdryer paradox'.

This is a thermogram of an operating hairdryer, taken using the same technology that enables us to understand greenhouse gases—thermoelectrics.



Why is there a gap after the hairdryer outlet?
Is the air not hot? Yes, it is blowing onto a surface, so it must be hot.

Is the air not radiating infrared (heat)? Everything with a temperature radiates IR, but from this image, it appears 'air' (mostly nitrogen and oxygen) doesn't—hence, they are termed non-greenhouse gases. But this is wrong. It is that the instrument's thermo-transductive detector does not transduce electricity from the radiant heat of nitrogen and oxygen molecules.

How did the 'air' get hot in the first place - and so quickly - if it does not absorb IR radiation? Air is an extremely poor thermal conductor of heat (0.026 W/(m K) ) and has a very low thermal diffusivity. Convection must imply radiation and/or conduction, so what is it?
It has to be from radiation. Nitrogen and Oxygen both have emission spectra lines in the IR range of the EMS, where they absorb their heat from the glowing, hot radiating elements in the dryer.
What would it look like if we put carbon dioxide through it? Would there be a gap then?
No, CO2 is thermo-transductive and will 'glow' in a thermal camera as the gas flows out.
I aim to try this as soon as I can.

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