ultraviolet light
121Klieg Light — As the film industry was getting started, so was another industry most useful to both stage and the early motion pictures. It was the klieg light, a light invented by the Kleigl brothers, John H. (1869 1959) and Anton T. (1872 1927), born in… …
122Advanced Light Source — The Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California is a synchrotron light source. Built from 1987 to 1993, it currently employs 185 scientists and staff. Part of the building in which it is housed was …
123Keeper of the Isis Light — The Keeper of the Isis Light is a young adult novel by Monica Hughes. It takes place on the fictional world of Isis, which revolves around the F5 star Ra in the constellation Indus. The story set some time in the distant future.Plot summaryThe… …
124Swiss Light Source — The Swiss Light Source is a synchrotron located at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland for producing synchrotron radiation of highest brightness. Planning started in 1991, project was approved in 1997, and first light from the storage ring …
125psoralen and ultraviolet A therapy — PUVA therapy. A type of photodynamic therapy used to treat skin conditions such as psoriasis, vitiligo, and skin nodules of cutaneous T cell lymphoma. The patient receives psoralen (a drug that becomes active when it is exposed to light) by mouth …
126Black light puppet — The black light puppet is a form of puppetry. The Famous People Players of Toronto are internationally renowned in this field. Blacklight Puppetry capitalizes on the novelty of Ultraviolet lights, or black light. Lighting the staging area with… …
127Extreme ultraviolet — Extreme Ultra Violet radiation (EUV) is generally considered to be the part of the electromagnetic spectrum spanning from 120 nm down to 10 nm. Its main uses are photoelectron spectroscopy, solar imaging, and lithography. EUV is naturally… …
128Fluorescent Light — The conversion of electric power to visible light by using an electric charge to excite gaseous atoms in a glass tube. These atoms emit ultraviolet radiation that is absorbed by a phosphor coating on the walls of the lamp tube. The phosphor… …
