Sentences with phrase «incoming infrared light»

Electrons that are driven toward the center absorb enough energy so that some of them emit blue light at double the frequency of the incoming infrared light.

Only the light in the visible spectrum can penetrate into the greenhouse whereas incoming infrared light, which is also known as heat radiation, is blocked by the glass or plastic.

Webb's spectrographs will spread incoming infrared light into a rainbow spectrum.

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This is because while carbon dioxide permits much of the incoming solar radiation (visible light) to reach the earth, it traps outgoing terrestrial (or infrared) radiation, slowing down the cooling of the earth's surface.

About half of the incoming energy is as heat (infrared or longwave) and about half is as visible light (shortwave).

Incoming infrared and some long wave visible light gets absorbed into the surface rapidly.