ultraviolet light
collocation in Englishmeaningsofultravioletandlight
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ultraviolet
adjective
uk/ˌʌl.trəˈvaɪə.lət/us/ˌʌl.trəˈvaɪə.lət/
Ultraviolet light has a wavelength that is after the violet (= light purple) end of the range of colours that can be seen by humans. Light of this type causes the skin to become darker in ...
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light
noun
uk/laɪt/us/laɪt/
the brightness that comes from the sun, fire, etc. and from electrical devices, and that allows things to ...
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Retinal receptors in rodents maximally sensitive toultravioletlight.
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Nor are people sensitive to infrared orultravioletlight.
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Ocular media transmission of coral reef fish- can coral reef fish seeultravioletlight?
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Enucleation was confirmed by visualizing the aspirated karyoplast inside the pipette underultravioletlight.
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Can the circadian system of a diurnal and a nocturnal rodent entrain toultravioletlight?
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Gels were stained with ethidium bromide and visualized on anultravioletlighttransilluminator.
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It begins with a tank of liquid photopolymer that is sensitive toultravioletlight.
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Ocular media transmission of coral reef fish-can coral reef fish seeultravioletlight?
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Fragments were separated through electrophoresis on 2 % agarose gels and visualized using ethidium bromide underultravioletlight.
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The safety of groundwater systems should be improved by chlorination or disinfection of water withultravioletlightdevices.
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With the application ofultravioletlight, the epoxy cures to its fully hardened state with no mixing or additional mess.
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Gels were stained by adding ethidium bromide to the agarose gel and banding patterns were visualized underultravioletlight.
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Such a layer would preferentially absorbultravioletlight, thereby allowing ammonia and methane to persist in the atmosphere.
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It can tolerate high temperatures, desiccation,ultravioletlightand ionising radiation doses 1,000 times higher than would be fatal to humans.
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After dehiscence (7-10 days after painting), the location of these seeds was determined using a handheldultravioletlightat night.
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In the dark-adapted state, all cells were at least four or five logarithmic units more sensitive and more to green thanultravioletlight.
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Bacteriophages, gamma irradiation, andultravioletlighttreatment are possible alternatives to sanitizing melons but have not been sufficiently evaluated for their efficacy.
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As this technique is non-destructive and uses very short exposure toultravioletlight, it can be used for either fixed or vital material.
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Hand recognition equipment and anultravioletlightscanner are also used to improve security during visits.
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Both oxidation states absorbultravioletlightstrongly.
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This sandwich is exposed toultravioletlight.
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It can not, however, filterultravioletlight.
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This species is attracted toultravioletlight.
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