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Ultraviolet  adj.  (Physics) Lying outside the visible spectrum at its blue-violet end; said of light more refrangible (i. e. having a shorter wavelength) than the extreme violet rays of the visible spectrum. Electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths shorter than those of ultrviolet light are not usually considered as light waves, but are classified differently. The ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum is generally considered as comprising those electromagnetic emissions with wavelengths lying between those of visible light and those of X-rays, i. e. between 4000 Angstroms and 100 Angstroms.






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"Ultraviolet" Quotes from Famous Books



... this indication we must turn our attention to parts of the ordinary spectrum, well known in themselves, which we have purposely left out of our study so far. These are the regions of the ultra-violet and the infra-red, invisible in themselves, but forming part of the spectrum as a whole. The ultraviolet manifests through chemical effects, the infra-red through thermal effects. We have left them out of our considerations because these regions of the spectrum differ from the visible part not only quantitatively, as present-day science believes, but qualitatively also, and in a ...
— Man or Matter • Ernst Lehrs

... of the atmosphere composed of ozone gas (O3) that resides approximately 25 miles above the Earth's surface and absorbs solar ultraviolet radiation that can be ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States



Words linked to "Ultraviolet" :   UV, ultraviolet light, actinic ray, ultraviolet radiation, sun-ray, ultraviolet lamp, ultraviolet illumination, actinic radiation, ultraviolet spectrum, sunray, unseeable, ultraviolet source



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