Sentences with phrase «ultraviolet radiation turn»

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Frozen in ice under ultraviolet radiation, high vacuum and low temperature, the pyrimidine turned into uracil, cytosine and thymine, major components of earthly DNA and RNA.

This, in turn, means that the universe's diffuse background of ultraviolet radiation plays a smaller role in the ionization process.

Ultraviolet radiation spices things up as well: It heats the grains and breaks up some of the molecules into reactive fragments, which in turn bond with other fragments to form new kinds of molecules.

Here, the bright orange lanes have been whittled away by ultraviolet radiation from the star, turning them into knots with cometlike tails.

Massive stars emit a large amount of ultraviolet radiation that destroys the molecules and dust surrounding the star and creates ionized gas, which in turn impedes the star's growth process.

When gas falls toward the black hole at the center of the galaxy NGC 4151, the gas heats up and emits ultraviolet radiation, which in turn heats the ring - shaped dust cloud orbiting the black hole at a distance.

The cell also overcomes some of the major problems with current solar tech like wear out or damage from high heat that comes from the absorption of great amounts of ultraviolet and infrared radiation that can't actually be turned into electricity due to a narrow band gap (the wavelength of light that can effectively be used to generate electricity).