wavelength
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Across the modeled wavelength range of 365-455 nm, the required decadic absorption coefficient reaches about 1,278 cm-1 at 375 nm.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
Sunlight passing through the Earth's atmosphere is scattered, with shorter blue wavelengths scattering more easily, while more of the longer wavelength red light reached the Moon.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
However, light at that wavelength did not produce the same response in tree shrews.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Its principal task was to show that the gravitational pull of the sun increased the wavelength of light rays, the so-called red shift, which would help verify Einstein’s theory of relativity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Visible light has a wavelength of between only forty and eighty millionths of a centimeter.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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The team initially examined 20 tidal disruption events using observations collected in visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and radio wavelengths.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Astronomers identify these substances through spectroscopy, a method that separates light into different wavelengths to reveal the chemicals present.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
Satellite sensors like the one on the new Tanager-2 can detect the invisible gas by measuring wavelengths of light bouncing off the earth’s surface.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
More of the shorter blue wavelengths of light are scattered, allowing the yellows, oranges and reds to become more prominent.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Because the virtual photons between the plates can have only the resonant wavelengths, there will be slightly fewer of them than in the region outside the plates where virtual photons can have any wavelength.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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