Sentences with phrase «using ultraviolet radiation»

The toilet will also filter urine through a membrane, then disinfect it using ultraviolet radiation.»

They don't use ultraviolet radiation or any other harmful thing.

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The BAS researchers were still using a 25 - year - old instrument to assess the thickness of the ozone layer by measuring ultraviolet radiation penetrating the atmosphere.

Following up on the discovery, an international team of scientists led by the Swiss astronomer Vincent Bourrier from the Observatoire de l'Université de Genève, used the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study the amount of ultraviolet radiation received by the individual planets of the system.

They can also be used for biological labeling because of their low toxicity, chemical stability, and intense luminescence when excited by near - IR radiation, which can penetrate tissue much better than higher energy radiation such as ultraviolet, as is often required with quantum dot labels.

Steve McMahon at Kings College London and colleagues used ultraviolet - B radiation to burn a small patch of skin in rats and 10 healthy humans.

Using data gleaned from the Hubble telescope, researchers have calculated the amount of ultraviolet (UV) radiation the planets receive from their star, a Hubble press release reports.

The iron minerals have special qualities — They absorb harmful ultraviolet radiation, but the part of the sunlight needed for photosynthesis can still be used by organisms.

Always use sunscreen whenever there is a risk of being exposed to ultraviolet radiation.

Using observatories that can see ultraviolet radiation, like the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted enough WHIM to account for about 50 % to 70 % of the missing baryons — still leaving a significant fraction unaccounted for.

Using premier beams of ultraviolet light at the ALS, a DOE national user facility for synchrotron radiation, the collaboration has reported the first demonstration of high - temperature superconductivity in the surface of a topological insulator — a unique class of advanced materials that are electrically insulating on the inside but conducting on the surface.

Astronomers using the ALMA radio telescope detected that the supersonic jet and the accretion disk survives the ultraviolet radiation generated by the birth of a massive star.

Because it uses extremely hard, corrosion - resistant, anti-scratch special ceramics made, even if it will not fade by ultraviolet radiation.

In addition to thermal energy, the sun also produces high levels of ultraviolet radiation that many herp species use for specific physiological functions.

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).