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In the two step hydrogen process of solar thermochemistry, with the change of volume fraction and th-ickness of optical path, the physical properties of metal oxide particles play an important role in the transmission of radiation energy in the reaction process of particles. In order to obtain the spectral radiation characteristics of ZnO particles, firstly, the spectral transmittance of ZnO metal oxide particles at 300~1200 nm was measured by suspension method. Secondly, the radiation characteristics of ZnO metal oxide particles with volume average size d43=13.9 μm and area average particle size d32=7.71 μm are studied theoretically. The results shows that for d32=7.71 μm, its attenuation, absorption and scattering coefficients are about 2 cm-1, 0.8 cm-1 and 1.2 cm-1 respectively, and for d43=13.9 μm, its attenuation, absorption and scattering coefficients are close to 1.1 cm-1,0.5 cm-1 and 0.6 cm-1 respectively. By analyzing the scattering phase function and the scattering asymmetry factor, it is known that the light is dominated by the forward scattering in the propagation, so that the sunlight is more likely to penetrate into the inner part of the particles. Then the spectral transmittance of two kinds of particles is calculated by Mie theory and BEER’s law. By comparing with the experimental results, it is found that the transmittance of the particle system represented by the area average size d32 is closer to the experimental results. Finally, using the average particle size and Monte Carlo method to simulate the hemispherical transmittance, hemispherical absorption rate and hemispherical reflectivity of different thickness and volume fraction.