Ultraviolet

//ˌʌltɹəˈvaɪələt//

"Ultraviolet" in a Sentence (14 examples)

The sudden increase of ultraviolet rays made the researchers believe in the existence of ozone holes.

Ultraviolet rays are harmful to us.

Ultraviolet rays can cause skin cancer.

He put on sunglasses to protect his eyes from ultraviolet rays.

In English, "ultraviolet" is often abbreviated as "UV".

We can't see ultraviolet light, but insects can.

The International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) was launched on July 26, 1978.

The International Ultraviolet Explorer provided information about physical conditions in the central regions of distant galaxies that may contain black holes. It also provided scientists with more knowledge of the physical conditions in very hot stars, the effect of solar winds on the atmospheres of the planets in our solar system, and the loss of mass from stars when stellar winds and flares occur.

Many municipalities have reduced chlorination and now also use ultraviolet light to sanitize the public supply of drinking water.

Butterflies can communicate using ultraviolet signals.

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Micron said in a statement that it would bring extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology to Japan, becoming the first semiconductor company to do so, and expected to invest up to 500 billion yen ($3.6 billion) with support from the Japanese government.

A one-loop Feynman graph that represents a virtual process. In the limit in which the virtual process involves short distances or high momenta, one may find an ultraviolet divergence in the corresponding amplitude.

Some have advocated the search for a new theory of quantum gravity, a theory which does not suffer from ultraviolet infinity problems.

Since current gravitational observations are insensitive to quantum effects, one may wonder why an ultraviolet completion of the gravity theory is needed if inflation, in fact, occurs several orders of magnitude below the Planck scale.

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