Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) Light in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum. 2 (context countable English) light bulb that emits ultraviolet light; see black light.
WordNet
n. radiation lying in the ultraviolet range; wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays [syn: ultraviolet, ultraviolet radiation, ultraviolet illumination, UV]
Usage examples of "ultraviolet light".
Although he demonstrated no overt traits of prot (he couldn't see ultraviolet light, for example), other signs of him were evident in Robert's personality.
The ozone layer was a feeble thing, and ultraviolet light a constant danger.
By the early 1970s my colleague Bishun Khare and I had been doing experiments at Cornell in which we irradiated various methane-rich atmospheres with Ultraviolet light or electrons and were generating reddish or brownish solids.
These atoms were forced together, to form complex organic molecules, by ultraviolet light and thunder and lightning, all produced by the radiation of our neighboring Sun.
Some oxygen is freed when ultraviolet light from the sun splits apart molecules of water (H2O), and the low-mass hydrogen atoms preferentially escape into space.
And Thumper had been out there changing a burned-out bulb, which wasn't burned out at all, but set up to flash instructions in the ultraviolet light range.
A rather drastic change of sterol structure often occurs when one is exposed to ultraviolet light.
If incubated with carbon dioxide and ultraviolet light, it grew steadily until all carbon dioxide had been consumed.
It was then exposed to intense ultraviolet light for a period of two days.
To some I was merely unclean, tainted, as if my genetic vulnerability to ultraviolet light could be passed to others with a sneeze, but some people feared and despised me more than they would fear or despise a three-eyed Toad Man in any carnival freak show from sea to shining sea, if only because I lived next door.
However, it is unknown whether increased ultraviolet light might shift cannabinoid synthesis from pentyl to propyl pathways or influence the production of THC acid or CBC acid instead of CBD acid.