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  • noun Plural form of wavelength.

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  • The visible spectrum operates in wavelengths that have no effects to people (since they are light) whilst the arguments against cellphones, Wi-Fi and cellphone mast radiation is building to a point that medical effects are being looked into and people becoming extremely concerned.

    802.11n To Win The Wireless HD Video Sweepstakes 2009

  • Fluorescent colours are produced by cells responding to certain wavelengths of light hitting them - causing the cell to emit its own light on a different wavelength, which creates a different colour.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Part of my job as a statistical field and stress analyzer meant that I needed to see in wavelengths that other people could not.

    365 tomorrows » 2009 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

  • It is not the sound of voices that we hear in wavelengths on the air, but the straining of our own minds and perhaps even hearts to comprehend the pains, sorrows, joys and loves of someone who is fundamentally different from us.

    This I Believe: Writing Mary Kate Hurley 2008

  • It is not the sound of voices that we hear in wavelengths on the air, but the straining of our own minds and perhaps even hearts to comprehend the pains, sorrows, joys and loves of someone who is fundamentally different from us.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2008

  • Although a black hole by definition gives off no light, the gas swirling around and into it does, giving off radiation at many wavelengths from the radio through the optical and into the x-ray.

    Archive 2008-09-04 Nicole 2008

  • These programmed materials change shape when struck by light at certain wavelengths and return to their original shapes when exposed to light of specific different wavelengths.

    Boing Boing: April 10, 2005 - April 16, 2005 Archives 2005

  • Thus Michelson's research has first of all prepared the way for the measurement of the value of a standard length of 10 cm in wavelengths of a particular radiation in the cadmium spectrum.

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1907 - Presentation Speech 1967

  • Silica happens to not absorb light of visible wavelengths, which is largely why it is transparent.

    Volcanic ash and cotton candy share molecular characteristics with glass Ivan Amato 2010

  • The line spectrum of many stars is very rich, at least at some wavelengths, which is why it is necessary to allow for the absorption of a number of lines of different elements when calculating the absorption of starlight at a particular wavelength.

    Scientific Misconduct « Climate Audit 2005

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