Sentences with phrase «absorb light from»

A jumble of nanostructures on this material's surface enables it to absorb light from many angles.

«Planets absorb light from the sun and heat up.

Solar panel manufacturer China Sunergy, is building a pilot manufacturing line for a two - sided solar cell that can absorb light from both the front and back.

Knox's paintings are made to perform, change colour, heat up or sensually absorb light from the room.

This is needed for photosynthesis to occur, a process that allows plants to absorb light from -LSB-...]

According to scientists, the quasar beam caused invisible filaments in deep space to glow through a process called «photoionization,» in which oxygen atoms in the filaments absorb light from the quasar and re-emit it over many thousands of years.

The ozone on Earth and the titanium oxide on WASP - 19b both absorb light from their parent stars, but the TiO releases the energy locally, into the stratosphere.

According to CfA, HARPS - N is a spectrograph which separates the light from a star into different wavelengths and different elements absorb light from these wavelengths.

A jumble of nanostructures on this material's surface enables it to absorb light from many angles.

Oxygen atoms in the filaments absorb light from the quasar and slowly re-emit it over many thousands of years.

Even then, it's more likely that any future beings will absorb light from accreting matter rather than dwell under a cold sun, as by then the CMB will have faded into nothing.

Unlike standard photovoltaic panels, Sphelar can absorb light from many directions, providing more consistent power generation as the sun moves across the sky.

Trees perform three major climate functions: They absorb carbon, which they pull from the atmosphere, creating a cooling effect; their dark green leaves absorb light from the sun, heating Earth's surface; and they draw water from the soil, which evaporates into the atmosphere, creating low clouds that reflect the sun's hot rays (a mechanism known as evotranspiration that also leads to cooling).

The team simulated a wire 200 nanometres wide and found it absorbed light from up to 100 nanometres from its edge.

They can be detected because the dust absorbs the light from stars and reemits it at longer wavelengths.

By looking at how material in the flight path absorbs light from the stars, scientists can deduce their chemical composition.

In the opening pages of Burnt Shadows Hiroko Tanaka survives the bombing of Hiroshima but is left with bird - shaped burns on her back from where her patterned kimono variously reflected and absorbed the light from the uranium bomb — causing the areas covered by dark fabric to be burned and the areas covered in lighter colors to repel the heat.

The oxygen absorbs light from the Sun, and since there is very little air in the thermosphere, just a little absorption can go a long way!

As the transport of radiation outward becomes less efficient, the temperature of the earth's surface must increase to reach a power balance with the absorbed light from the sun.

Not exact matches

I'd read EREVN's various posts on medium.com and need to re-read to absorb the subtleties of his assumptions and approach and how they differ from McClung's as they case a somewhat different light on Prime Harvesting.

On a lonely two - hour walk home from my piano lesson, seeing an otherwise ordinary sunset, I was suddenly flooded by light and absorbed in a sea of light which, although it did not extinguish the humble awareness of my finite existence, overflowed the barriers that normally separate us from the surrounding world.

Note: If using a dark colored pan, reduce the oven temperature, stated in the recipe, by 25 degrees F. (This is because dark colored pans absorb more of the energy coming from the oven walls so they become hotter and transmit heat faster than light colored pans.)

I made cookie macarons once and used half almond and half cookie crumbs, and they worked pretty well — you need go very light on the mixing because the cereal will absorb a lot of the liquid from the egg whites.

Oxytocin can be released from and absorbed through the skin by light touch, light pressure, and warm temperature.

Use a light scrubber to rub the spots on seats, pockets or canopy of the stroller and then use an absorbing wet cloth to remove the soap from the cleaned spots.

Retinal cells contain three yellow pigments — lutein, zeaxanthin and meso - zeaxanthin — which absorb near - ultraviolet light, protecting the eye from its damaging effects and reducing glare.

These molecules initially comprise just a small fraction of the gas, but they can absorb heat from the surrounding gas and get rid of it by emitting light, thereby cooling the cloud enough for stars to form.

The lakes can be broadly classified as «clearwater,» in which full - spectrum light passes relatively unimpeded, or «blackwater,» in which most of the visible light is absorbed by dissolved tannins, creating an almost nocturnal environment with only dim, red - shifted light filtering in from above.

Aside from getting away from weather intrusions, the flying telescope will soar above much of Earth's water vapor, which absorbs a lot of infrared light.

Enormous clouds of these tiny grains scatter and absorb some of the radiation emitted from the stars — especially visible light — limiting what can be seen by telescopes here on Earth.

This is because the dust in dark nebulae absorbs and scatters blue light from stars more than red light, tinting the stars several shades more crimson than they would otherwise be.

Some produce a compound called parietin, which absorbs blue and UV light and protects cells from damage.

Made from nylon with a silicone waterproof coating that also reflects and absorbs UV light, the Wolfwise stands up to most weather conditions.

The nanowires collect sunlight, much like the light - absorbing layer on a solar panel, and the bacteria use the energy from that sunlight to carry out chemical reactions that turn carbon dioxide into a liquid fuel such as isopropanol.

Light from the galaxy is absorbed by the dust, emitted as infrared, and stretched to radio wavelengths as the universe expands.

The Sun is close to being a «black body» — that is, the light it emits is very much like that from a hypothetical black surface that absorbs all the radiation falling on it.

But if those aromatic hydrocarbons were treated with an acid to create aniline or another amine, after some additional steps the newly synthesized molecules very efficiently absorbed light particles from specific wavelengths in the visible spectrum.

They analyzed the samples for colored dissolved organic matter, which contains light - absorbing molecules from the breakdown of plant polymers such as lignin.

The study, published in Physical Review Letters by researchers from UCL, the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia), National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA) and Nicolaus Copernicus University (Poland), shows how the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics can be used to predict precisely how light of different colours is absorbed by CO2.

Chloroplasts alone absorb light only from the visible portion of the solar spectrum, allowing access to only about 50 % of the incident solar energy radiation, and less than 10 % of full sunlight saturates the capacity of the photosynthetic apparatus.

Colours in nature normally come from pigments, which absorb most light wavelengths, except for ones that they reflect to give the colour we see.

The electrical current can also be channeled to form hydrogen gas through the addition of electric power from a small photovoltaic cell that absorbs the excess light.

Rice University materials scientists have created a light foam from two - dimensional sheets of hexagonal - boron nitride (h - BN) that absorbs carbon dioxide.

They are crystalline powders that absorb energy from blue or near - UV light and emit light in the visible spectrum.

Ultraviolet light from early, blueish stars (illustrated) interacted with hydrogen gas, causing it to absorb background radiation, and creating a signature scientists have now detected.

The surface looks black because, due to its roughness, any light that reflects from one particle will hit another one and get absorbed.

They added a cloud of warm haze a few light - years from the black hole to absorb some of those low - energy X-rays.

When light waves strike an object, they can interact with it in several ways: They can be reflected back like those from a mirror; they can be absorbed, which means they are captured by the object; they can be transmitted and pass through it; or they can be scattered and deflected in different directions.

Its two faces differ strikingly in color, likely the result of thermal segregation: Over time, darker materials (like carbon) have absorbed more heat from the sun, warming up and sending lighter, more volatile materials (like ice) to the colder hemisphere.

If astronomers find Voorwerp is emitting light it once absorbed from a quasar, «this would be some kind of pointer to the possibility that there is more local black hole growth than we might have estimated originally», Urry told New Scientist.