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Photosensitive

Photosensitive meaning

having a reaction to, or able to be affected by, light

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I am photosensitive to bright light.

Oh, and a warning about the below video from the band – "This video has been identified by Epilepsy Action to potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy.

The retinas, multi-layered sensory tissue that line the back of the eye, contain photosensitive cells that send light information to the SCN.

Another method for manufacturing diffraction gratings uses a photosensitive gel sandwiched between two substrates.

A photosensitive dye is then applied, after which the discs are metalized and lacquer-coated.

A photosensitive material is a material that experiences a change in its physical properties when exposed to a radiation source.

First-generation machines had large photosensitive drums, of circumference greater than the loaded paper's length.

If a photosensitive material is selectively exposed to radiation (e.g. by masking some of the radiation) the pattern of the radiation on the material is transferred to the material exposed, as the properties of the exposed and unexposed regions differs.

Numerous patents describe the photosensitive drum coating as a silicon sandwich with a photocharging layer, a charge leakage barrier layer, as well as a surface layer.

Previous hypotheses emphasized that photosensitive proteins and circadian rhythms may have originated together in the earliest cells, with the purpose of protecting replicating DNA from high levels of damaging ultraviolet radiation during the daytime.

Silver metal dissolves readily in nitric acid ( HNOmain ) to produce silver nitrate ( AgNOmain ), also called 'lunar caustic', a transparent crystalline solid that is photosensitive and readily soluble in water.

The retina comprises numerous pigment cells and photoreceptors; the latter are easily modified flagellated cells, whose flagellum membranes carry a photosensitive pigment on their surface.

Typically, the photosensitive substances are sealed between two substrates which make them resistant to humidity, thermal and mechanical stresses.

When, via random mutation across the population, the photosensitive cells happened to have developed on a small depression, it endowed the organism with a better sense of the light's source.