Sentences with phrase «radiation leaks out»

Thus, for a well - coupled convecting troposphere, one defines the climate sensitivity (in the absence of feedback) as 1 / [d (SB) / dT] = 1 / (4 * sigma * T ^ 3), where T in this case is actually the emission temperature of the planet where infrared radiation leaks out to space (analogous to the photosphere of the sun, where eventually the outer layers of the sun become optically thin to visible radiation, and allow that energy to escape to space), not the surface temperature.

Is it harmful if some of the microwave radiation leaks out and hits the skin?

As terahertz waves travel down the waveguide, some of the radiation leaks out of the slit.

Not exact matches

It turns out that the thousands of feet of solid salt deposits and clay designed to protect against radiation leaks also protect the caverns from the background radiation constantly hitting Earth's surface.

Such material could be hidden inside a lead container, making the radiation levels leaking out too low for the Geiger counter to detect, or the guard might be 100 meters away from the source, allowing the intensity of the radiation to dissipate before it reaches the detector.

After a while, the IR radiation leaks back out into space.

Every waste dump in the U.S. leaks radiation into the environment, and nuclear plants themselves are running out of ways to store highly radioactive waste on site.