Sentences with phrase «at certain wavelengths»

The crystals reflect light at a certain wavelength depending on their spacing, so the relaxed gel appears green, but squeezing or stretching it turns it blue or red.

As we both know, CO2 only absorbs and emits at certain wavelengths.

CO2 is a greenhouse gas, it does interact with infrared radiation at certain wavelengths and prevents heat from escaping the atmosphere.

(Paint becomes transparent at certain wavelengths, depending on what it's made of.)

«Among such structures, one of the more interesting is similar to structures found in nature, and is referred to as a «moth - eye» pattern: tiny nanopillars which can «beat» the Fresnel equations at certain wavelengths and angles.»

For example, some of these materials can channel light around an object so that it appears invisible at a certain wavelength.

As you can see in the graph, there are several peaks in the CCO absorption of photons at certain wavelengths.6 The highest of these peaks are at about 660 - 670 nm and 830 - 850 nm.

Carbon dioxide absorbs heat at certain wavelengths.

So we expect to see an increase in outgoing radiation over some of the longwave spectrum with sharp drops at certain wavelengths.

Greenhouse gases absorb some of the infrared energy that Earth emits in so - called bands of stronger absorption that occur at certain wavelengths.

Methane and other pollutants, like benzene and toluene, that are released from oil and gas operations absorb infrared radiation at certain wavelengths on the electromagnetic spectrum.

Different molecules absorb light at certain wavelengths, or colors, resulting in dark spectral lines.

«Light at certain wavelengths can be absorbed out of a thin optical waveguide by a microresonator — which is essentially a tiny glass sphere — when they are brought very close,» explained Gaurav Bahl, an assistant professor of mechanical science and engineering at Illinois.

Light would pile up on top of the holes, and at certain wavelengths, the holes transmitted more of that light than actually reached the hole.

As starlight passes through a planet's atmosphere, atoms and molecules absorb light at certain wavelengths, blocking it from the telescope's view.

For instance, surgical lasers emit beams of light at a certain wavelength that allows them to cut tissue and cauterize bleeding vessels.