Sentences with phrase «absorbs ultraviolet rays»
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These sunscreens protect us from harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation by absorbing rays before they penetrate deep into our skin.
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Dr. Norman Rowe, a New York City - based board - certified plastic surgeon says that chemically - based sunscreens are absorbed into the skin in order to protect the skin from ultraviolet rays.
The sunscreen chemicals that absorb the sun's dangerous ultraviolet radiation are typically organic molecules (as opposed to the metal oxides that block the sun's rays in sunblock).
This molecule, which the researchers call pteronenone, had a structure similar to that of chemicals which absorb the Sun's damaging ultraviolet rays and are carried by other planktonic creatures (Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol 60, p 780).
Earth's storm clouds are stopped about 20 kilometres up by a layer of warm air heated by ozone, which absorbs the sun's ultraviolet rays.
When we lost our fur, the sun's ultraviolet rays damaged our newly exposed skin, which reacted by producing melanin, a pigment that absorbs the sun's solar radiation, explain anthropologists at Penn State.
But the rare earths are especially valuable for their property of fluorescence: They can absorb light or ultraviolet rays and re-emit the energy as an eerie glow of certain colors specific to each element.
It absorbs the sun's harmful extreme - ultraviolet rays.
Orbiting telescopes have a leg up over their land - bound colleagues, since they can see the infrared or ultraviolet rays that terrestrial telescopes absorb [source: Melina].
These types of ingredients are very effective in blocking potentially harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun but when absorbed into the blood,...
One of the cockpit's defining features is the panoramic roof, which utilizes a «Sound and Solar Film» coating to kill decibels and absorb heat - causing ultraviolet rays.
«Thick coats provide physical protection from the sun's rays, and dark coats absorb much of the damaging ultraviolet rays emitted by the sun.»