Below you will find example sentences with "visible light". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Visible Light in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: visible
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 7
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 26 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 8 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "visible light" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 26 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 95 of visible light to compare, apparent that visible light ultraviolet light, infrared, black and wavelengths stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with light rail, light grey and light pollution, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with visible light
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Visible light or ultraviolet -emitting lasers can char paper and incandescently hot objects emit visible radiation. (16 words)
Dust grains within them absorb visible light and only let through radiation at longer wavelengths, like infrared light. (18 words)
For visible light normal dispersion means that the refractive index is higher for blue light than for red. (18 words)
It is about 110 times brighter than the Sun in visible light wavelengths, but this underestimates its strength as much of the light it gives off is in the infrared ; total ( bolometric ) power output is about 180 times that of the Sun. (42 words)
An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a wire filament heated to a high temperature, by passing an electric current through it, until it glows with visible light ( incandescence ). (37 words)
Much of the visible light comes from the decay of radioactive elements produced by the supernova shock wave, and even light from the explosion itself is scattered by dense and turbulent gases, and thus delayed. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a wire filament heated to a high temperature, by passing an electric current through it, until it glows with visible light ( incandescence ).
Many approaches seek to adapt visible light-sensing devices, but these can suffer from unwanted response to visible light and various instabilities.
The infrared range is beyond the long-wavelength end of the visible light spectrum, so it supports less density than shorter-wavelength visible light.
Fluorescent black light lamps use a phosphor on the inner tube surface, which emits UVA light instead of visible light.
Infrared light sources can be used to augment the available ambient light for conversion by night vision devices, increasing in-the-dark visibility without actually using a visible light source.
It quickly became apparent that visible light, ultraviolet light, and infrared light (phenomena thought previously to be unrelated) were all electromagnetic waves of differing frequency.
Essentially, all of the visible light from space comes from stars, which are plasmas with a temperature such that they radiate strongly at visible wavelengths.
The nanometre is also commonly used to specify the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation near the visible part of the spectrum : visible light ranges from around 400 to 700 nm.
Visible light As frequency increases into the visible range, photons have enough energy to change the bond structure of some individual molecules.
Visible light or ultraviolet -emitting lasers can char paper and incandescently hot objects emit visible radiation.
Dust grains within them absorb visible light and only let through radiation at longer wavelengths, like infrared light.
The radio light seen by MeerKAT easily penetrates the dense clouds of dust that block visible light from the center of the galaxy.
He uses marks made with a black Sharpie and a paint called Black 2 (which absorbs 95% of visible light) to compare how well his black square absorbs light.
A cold mirror is made by using a transparent substrate and choosing a coating material that is more reflective to visible light and more transmissive to infrared light.
Another possibility is that the granules provide photoprotection: the bursts of AA fluorescence entail the conversion of damaging UV light to relatively harmless visible light.
For visible light normal dispersion means that the refractive index is higher for blue light than for red.
It is about 110 times brighter than the Sun in visible light wavelengths, but this underestimates its strength as much of the light it gives off is in the infrared ; total ( bolometric ) power output is about 180 times that of the Sun.
Much of the visible light comes from the decay of radioactive elements produced by the supernova shock wave, and even light from the explosion itself is scattered by dense and turbulent gases, and thus delayed.
Since these pixels are sensitive to all wavelengths of visible light, they collect a significantly higher proportion of the light striking the sensor.
The infrared spectrum is useful for studying objects that are too cold to radiate visible light, such as planets, circumstellar disks or nebulae whose light is blocked by dust.