Sentences with phrase «reflect less light»

Solar cells are more efficient when they reflect less light, a quality usually improved with coatings.

The matte skins of course reflect less light too.

The task will be complicated by the sheer number of such objects and by their diminished brightness — smaller asteroids and comets reflect less light and so more easily escape detection.

Solar cells, for example, would be far more efficient if they reflected less light and absorbed more of it as energy.

According to Graf's model, the vast sulphur emissions created sulphate particles that grew large and so reflected less light, reducing the cooling effect (Geophysical Research Letters, doi.org/cpk3fm).

If anything it makes it harder to read because the black background reflects less light.

Not exact matches

Another crucial debate topic: Is the moon a lesser light, or is that light merely solar light reflected off the moon.

According to Graf's model, Toba's massive sulphur emissions created large sulphate particles that were less able to reflect light, reducing the cooling effect (Geophysical Research Letters, doi.org/cpk3fm).

Red areas reflect conditions in which drones emit less carbon dioxide than trucks (lighter packages, fewer stops), while blue areas denote conditions in which drones emit more (heavier packages, more stops).

The patterns produced by fog - reflected light vary according to the fog's density: On average, light penetrates less deeply into a thick fog than it does into a light fog.

The real surprise was a cluster of spots on the comet's nucleus that are three times darker than the rest of it, reflecting less than 1 % of light.

In that case, the plasmons are able to absorb more energy from the laser light, and less light is reflected.

Mercury's bleak, airless surface is similar to the moon's, so scientists have long been puzzled why the planet reflects so much less light than our lunar satellite.

If the metal were perfectly conducting, it would reflect all of the light, but the conductivity of real metals is less than perfect.

Using a photographic technique, the graduate students measured how poorly the birds» feathers reflected light — the less relative light a bird reflected, the dirtier it was.

If an ice sheet were ablated down to bare ground, less light from the sun would be reflected back into space and more would be absorbed by the land.

And we know the universe is dark, predominantly that less than five percent of what's out there can shine or reflect light, that most of the universe is in a form of matter called dark matter or a form of energy called dark energy.

Scientists already suspected that silvery fish like the lookdown and the bigeye scad use their skin as camouflage, reflecting light away to be less conspicuous.

Reflected light makes skin appear brighter, dark circles appear less dark and wrinkles appear shallower.

Tiny, shimmery light - reflecting particles make you instantly appear bright - eyed and less wrinkled.

With less chemicals (reducing blockages in the skin and breakout) mineralise makeup also has the added advantage of reflecting the light beautifully!

A pewter shade is less predictable than black and will reflect light for a brightening effect.

That side surfacing reflects an uninterrupted «S - line» of light and complements other minimalist surfacing that Mazda refers to as «less is more.»

Darker animes reflect our paranoia and suspicion and lighter animes are our wish for a less complicated world or at least a breather from it.

E-paper reflects light instead of emitting it, which makes it less power hungry and easier to read in bright sunlight.

The extra layer required for the touchscreen, coupled with the built - in LED sidelights, caused the screen to reflect more light, making the text less clear and readable compared to the Kindle and the PRS - 505.

The investment seeks to reflect the performance, less expenses, of the spot price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) light, sweet crude oil.

Transparent shadows with subtle reflected light create dimension and render the flesh less humanoid than that of Kauper's typically arch characters.

Along with metal that does reflect light and color, they incorporate for contrast gently curving sheets of carbon fiber, less like airplane parts than oversized bicycle sheets.

Sagebrush is much less reflective than the flowers; where the light - colored flowers once reflected much of the sun's energy back into space, sagebrush, with its dark bark, absorbed it.

Light surfaces reflect more light away and absorb less Light surfaces reflect more light away and absorb less light away and absorb less heat.

Now if you slowly add milk, you still see the same amount of light, but less of it comes from the bottom because some of it is reflected by the milk.

Reflect the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities in light of different national circumstances (see Article 2.2), but do so differently across different elements of the agreement (see throughout), and rely less on differentiation via fixed categories of countries (e.g., no mention in the agreement of «Annex I»).

According to NASA, drought - stressed vegetation reflects more visible light and less infrared than healthy vegetation.

As more ocean is exposed, this can trigger a potentially dangerous mechanism of positive feedback, whereby less light is reflected, causing further warming and thus more ice to melt.

The authors found the ice sheet reflected significantly less light as the algal population grew.

The decrease in light - colored ice reflects less incoming solar energy back into space and can heat the troposphere.

By standardising the techniques they also show up a few errors in previous analyses: for example, if you increase the total amount of light reflected back into space by clouds, you reduce the amount reflected by the surface, simply because less light gets there in the first place.

A coating that mimics the wings of butterflies allows solar panels to absorb almost all of the light energy, reflecting less

The design's colour palette of striking blues and light hues reflects more sunlight and absorbs less heat — improving the look of these popular pedestrian plazas while making them more comfortable places to sit.

The display has also been adjusted so it reflects less incoming light and has a much brighter backlight.

In these cases the amount of light reflected back from deeper - coloured pigmentation of the skin is less than the device is calibrated for.

Tests showed that a Reflect - A-Star lamp used 85 percent less energy than a 100 - watt incandescent lamp, while more than doubling the light output, from 90 foot - candles to 190 foot - candles.