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Ultraviolet   /ˌəltrəvˈaɪəlɪt/   Listen
Ultraviolet

noun
1.
Radiation lying in the ultraviolet range; wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays.  Synonyms: ultraviolet illumination, ultraviolet light, ultraviolet radiation, UV.



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... right. The air-regenerating apparatus had been developed from the aeriating culture-tanks in which antibiotics were grown on Earth. It needed only reseeding with algae—microscopic plants which when supplied with ultraviolet light fed avidly on carbon dioxide and yielded oxygen. The ship was a rather involved combination of essentially simple devices. It could be put back into such workability as it had once ...
— Operation: Outer Space • William Fitzgerald Jenkins


Words linked to "Ultraviolet" :   actinic radiation, ultraviolet light, invisible, sun-ray, actinic ray, sunray, unseeable


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