Sentences with phrase «tiny light reflecting»

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Tiny, mirrorlike structures known as distributed Bragg reflectors reflect this fluorescent light as well as all the other light the photonic crystal allows to pass through.

All owe their colour not to pigments, but to the way light reflects off tiny structures on their surface, says Beverley Glover at the University of Cambridge.

By happenstance, the alternating layers act as tiny prisms, adding rainbow tinges to the light they reflect.

To slow Earth's warming, some scientists have proposed pumping tons of tiny light - scattering particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect sunlight back into space.

In 2009, a European team published their research on the tiny circular plankton Emiliania huxleyi, made up of light - reflecting mineralized calcium ovals.

Everyone assumed chameleons actually changed colour, but we now know they really use millions of tiny mirrors to reflect light in different ways

Feathers, like most opaque objects, typically get their color from pigments in surface coatings (much as melanin colors skin) or from tiny surface structures that reflect light, such as those found on iridescent butterflies and beetles.

The technique, developed by researchers at Sheffield University, uses the phenomenon of laser «speckle»: no surface is uniformly smooth at the atomic scale and, when laser light reflects off it, the roughness caused by the individual atoms creates interference in the wavefronts so that the reflected light seems to scintillate, with tiny bright and dark patches.

Nanotechnology Consumer Products Inventory now contains over 1,000 nanotechnology - enabled consumer products, reflecting the increasing use of tiny particles in everything from conventional products like non-stick cookware and lighter, stronger tennis racquets, to more unique items such as wearable sensors that monitor posture.

Viewed from another star, our Earth's reflected light would be 10 billion times fainter than the Sun itself, with an orbit that separates the Earth from the Sun by a tiny fraction of an arcsecond.

Each of the tiny particles in the dispersion reflects the light and scatters it.

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

To examine the reflections we bounced a tiny 3 mm in diameter highly collimated pencil beam of light at 45 degrees to the screen and photographed the reflected beams, which appear as overlapping circles in the photos below.

The tiny beads reflect light as the piece subtly shifts in space, resulting in a glimmering quality that is dependent on the interaction of light and glass.

Corse found that incorporating light - reflecting, tiny acrylic squares within the all - black palette, often classified by the absence of light, achieved luminescence.

He saw benevolence and beauty, the tightly knit longleaf pine forests, the undulant riverine corridors of the Chattahoochee, the tantalizing pure light of life reflected on bracts and fronds, the drifting silvery spider silk that takes tiny passengers to new forests.

Another way is from certain wavelengths of the light that are reflected back and get absorbed by greenhouse gases and warm the atmosphere (mostly water vapor, methane and tiny amounts of CO2).

Not being absorbed by real world water, visible is not only not capable because of its tiny scale of moving the whole molecule of water into vibration which is what it takes to heat water, but it isn't even able to be absorbed by the electrons of the water molecules as the electrons of the molecules of air absorb it, so water doesn't reflect / scatter visible light on the electrons of molecule level as does air, but gives up and passes it along, and so, visible is transmitted through, also, unchanged, but much delayed.

The tiny energy from visible light is reflected or absorbed thru photosynthesis or thru chemical reactions.

And when volcanoes erupt they produce tiny particles that also reflect light energy in this way.

When I first read about the tiny house movement a few years ago, I lit up because reflected before me was a way of life that I had been longing for.

Shorter wavelengths though more energetic does not mean that they are therefore more powerful in penetrating matter, they are much weaker than the longer waves depending on the make up of the matter as more likely to get reflected and scattered because of their tiny size, and here, my point, is that the Solar energy balance graphic is wrong, because it has reversed the properties by giving Light energies the ability to penetrate and heat matter which is the actual, real, property of Thermal IR.

It is a compact silicon plate which uses a tiny grid of tunable crystals to control the measures of magnitude, time delay or phase of the reflected light which shines at the surface of the chip from the laser.

«They have a lot of darkness, and they always do things like put one or two mirrored candle brackets or wall lights opposite a window, just to reflect even the tiniest amount of light.»