Sentences with phrase «energy of ultraviolet light»

The relatively high energy of ultraviolet light gives rise to certain photochemical reactions.

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And as the equipment descends, everything will pass a bank of ultraviolet lights that bathes it with 40,000 microwatts per square centimeter of cell - killing energy.

Ideally, the electron gains so much energy in the laser field that upon impact with the atom, a much shorter flash of light with very high energy is emitted — an attosecond laser pulse, with a frequency in the ultraviolet - or x-ray regime.

When high - energy ultraviolet light from the central star strikes a clump of dust and ice grains, it drives electrons off the particles.

So, armed with improved equipment, University of California, Davis researchers subjected carbon dioxide to high - energy ultraviolet light particles in a vacuum.

The supernova explosions that create and spread heavy elements also unleash a torrent of high - energy radiation: gamma rays, X-rays, and ultraviolet light.

But in standard solar cell materials this requires that incoming photons have at least 5 electron volts worth of energy, which corresponds to photons of deep ultraviolet light (UV).

Such one - step oxygen formation could be happening now as carbon dioxide increases in the region of the upper atmosphere, where high energy vacuum ultraviolet light from the Sun hits Earth or other planets.

Ultraviolet rays have enough energy to allow the reaction in common materials such as titanium dioxide, but UVs make up only about 4 percent of the light Earth receives from the sun.

But Alex Dessler, a space physicist at the University of Arizona, Tucson, says the same area of the planet also produces unusual radio signals, flares of ultraviolet light, and high levels of infrared radiation and even seems to be correlated with a patch in Jupiter's magnetosphere that pumps out high - energy electrons.

By studying such a large data set — over 200,000 galaxies in 21 different wavelengths, or colors of light, from ultraviolet to infrared — astronomers compared the energy emissions from galaxies across a wide swath of space and time to read the history of the universe.

Sunlight contains low - energy photons (infrared light) and high - energy photons (sunburn - causing ultraviolet radiation), as well as all of the visible light in between.

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 occurs in the outermost layers (chromosphere and corona) when the configuration of the magnetic field changes and releases energy, which can be detected in several bands of the electromagnetic spectrum as visible or ultraviolet light, although they are most commonly recorded in X-rays.

In some, as much as 10 per cent of the excitation energy in the form of ultraviolet light is re-emitted as visible light.

The new tool will soon be able to generate pulses of high - energy light, with a wavelength of 60 nanometers, in the extreme ultraviolet segment of the spectrum.

The Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory is netting signals from the most energetic particles in the universe: ultrahigh - energy cosmic rays, which slam into the atmosphere at speeds no accelerator can match, sparking air showers of subatomic particles and ultraviolet light.

They are electromagnetic waves like visible light but situated at the high energy / short wavelength end of the electromagnetic spectrum, between ultraviolet light and gamma rays.

The formation of nitric oxide molecules releases extra energy, which manifests as ultraviolet light causing the sky to glow.

«What we're going to do is examine the structure and composition, the energy inputs into the upper atmosphere, the solar wind, the solar ultraviolet - light, and solar energetic particles that come out of major storms on the sun, and see how the atmosphere responds,» Jakosky said.

Hubble, being a space - based observatory with state - of - the - art spectrographs, can search for the missing colors of light absorbed by the intergalactic gas, particularly in the high - energy ultraviolet colors where the hot intergalactic gas does a significant amount of absorption.

In 1956, astronomer Lyman Spitzer Jr. proposed that there was a significant amount of hot gas outside of galaxies that could be detected in high - energy ultraviolet light.

Ultraviolet light is the most abundant type of energy generated by very hot stars.

I think too if you look at the way the ultraviolet light, the energy spectrum of ultraviolet light, but typically what we use A and C, it will actually energize the cell membranes and create energies across the membranes of the cells, particularly red and white blood cells.

The Earth receives energy from the Sun in the form of visible light and ultraviolet radiation, which is then re-radiated away from the surface as thermal radiation in infrared wavelengths.

The Met Office state «The «greenhouse effect» is the way the atmosphere traps some of the energy we receive from the Sun (infrared radiation or heat, ultraviolet and visible light) and stops it being transmitted back out into space».

Of this energy, 527 watts is infrared radiation, 445 watts is visible light, and 32 watts is ultraviolet radiation.»

Energy transfer in the form of electromagnetic waves includes infrared radiation, visible light, and ultraviolet rays.

Solar energy enters our atmosphere as shortwave radiation in the form of ultraviolet (UV) rays (the ones that give us sunburn) and visible light.

The absorption of ultraviolet light by O2 produces two O atoms which then combine with O2 atoms producing ozone (O3) and releasing heat energy.

Ozone absorbs ultraviolet light for example which are higher energy than visible light and little of it reaches into the troposphere.

The Earth receives energy from the sun in the form of ultraviolet rays (light) and releases some of this energy back into space as infrared rays (heat).

The greenhouse effect works like this: Energy arrives from the sun in the form of visible light and ultraviolet radiation.

Today, builders are putting significant energy savings into a home using special glass that blocks ultraviolet light, installing solar panels, and orienting homes to take maximum advantage of the southern exposure.