action spectrum
action spectrum A graphical plot of the efficiency of electromagnetic radiation in producing a photochemical reaction against the wavelength of the radiation used. For example, the action spectrum for photosynthesis using light shows a peak in the region 670–700 nm. This corresponds to a maximum absorption in the absorption
spectrum of chlorophylls in this region.
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Jolly old St. Flick-a-Switch ; Stan Norton's Christmas displays always pull in the crowds, and 2009 is no exception. But just wait until next year ...
Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine); 12/13/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...But just wait until next year ...Byline: Bill Nemitz...t run the dryer when the lights are on. (Stan "borrowed...like the time a couple of years ago when everything in the...Norton Lights" came four years ago, when Stan and his brother...display. "I had everything that year," ...
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Top ten New Year's resolutions for a 'greener' workplace
Newspaper article from: Al Bawaba; 12/16/2009; 700+ words
; For many New Year is the time for personal resolutions...AND SAVE MONEYEnergy saving light bulbs are much more efficient...so allow natural outdoor light to illuminate the office...the simple habit of switching lights off whenever you leave a room...restroom fans to operate with the lights. 9. ...
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A recipe Yule love to taste year after year.
Magazine article from: Investment Adviser; 12/14/2009; 700+ words
; ...you like - I have picked up a few shreds of wisdom over the years that might be worth sharing. First, don't rule out the possibility...red Burgundy, which is intensely flavoured, but reasonably light-bodied, should also do the trick. Second, if you're going...
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Focus on 2009: A year of novel pharmacologic agents in review
Magazine article from: Formulary; 11/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...in coordinating and overseeing these articles throughout the year. Mr Quercia is clinical manager, Department of Pharmacy Services...compared with other NMB reversal drugs in that it can reverse a light, moderate, or deep NMB, thus eliminating the need for acetylcholinesterase...Associated cardiovascular risk ...
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Behind the scenes: you've watched it on TV for years; now you can enjoy the ultimate insider's look at Antiques Roadshow, thanks to a new book by the series' executive producer.(SPECIAL BOOK EXCERPT)
Magazine article from: Antiques Roadshow Insider; 12/1/2009; 700+ words
; ...Antiques Roadshow has sent appraisers all over the nation to shed light on wildly varied antiques and collectibles that guests bring...Lloyd of Maryland, one of the wealthiest women in America. A year later, Cadwalader and his bride purchased a house in Philadelphia...
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Suspect in Halloween killing gets 16 years on gun charge
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 12/15/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...an AK-47, killing a 12-year-old South Carolina boy. But the 16-year, eight-month sentence handed...Jackson said Patrick could face 30 years to life in prison if convicted...Sumter because the front porch light was on - the traditional signal...T.J.'s father and 9-year-old brother were ...
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Office party no longer so hearty ; After a grim year, companies scaling back holiday fests
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/16/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...of Deloitte & Touche LLP this year. Like many other companies...celebration, as they did last year. It wasn't in the State Room...planning holiday parties this year, down from 77 percent last...in half, Nedeu said, with light shows and carnival themes falling...
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Draft Border Guard Act 2009 submitted to Law Ministry: 7 years imprisonment to death sentence for felony
Newspaper article from: United News of Bangladesh; 12/15/2009; 567 words
; ...providing for maximum punishment from seven years' imprisonment to death sentence for grave...inadequacies of the existing law that came to light while the government deciding the mode...seeks to enhance the punishment from seven years in jail under the Border Guard Act 2009...
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MOST CITY OF DURHAM OFFICES CLOSED FOR CHRISTMAS, NEW YEAR'S HOLIDAYS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 12/15/2009; 700+ words
; ...in observance of the Christmas and New Year's holidays. Durham residents are asked...remove all decorations, including tinsel, lights, garland, and ornaments, as well as...RECYCLE Residents are encouraged to recycle year-round and particularly during the holiday...
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Light beer scorecard, year-to-date ending June 28th 2009.
Magazine article from: Modern Brewery Age; 7/21/2009; 700+ words
; Light Beer Scorecard, Year-to-date ending June 28th 2009 Excerpted from IRI Data Total US Food Drug and Convenience Case Case Sales Light Beer/ Light Pkg Type Sales % Chg YA CATEGORY--BEER 595,625,536 (0...
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Light Speed
Book article from: Mathematics
Light Speed Many science fiction writers...needed—the light-year. A light-year is the amount of distance that light travels in vacuum in one Earth year. Astronomers have found light-years to be a convenient distance when...
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Light
Book article from: Science of Everyday Things
...x2014;the belief that light rays originate in the eye and...them visible. Some 1,500 years after the high point of Greek...the Middle Ages, showed that light comes from a source such as...era of progress in studies of light began with the Renaissance...
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Holiday Lights
Book article from: How Products Are Made
...glass that made the lights appear colored. Of...invention of the electric light bulb. Candles were...1800s, and tallow lights or nutshells with oil...This clip was much lighter in weight than the counterbalance...1920s when electric lights finally extinguished...Christmas debuted only three ...
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light
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...spectrum in 1666, held that light is composed of tiny particles...phenomena. For more than 100 years, Newton's corpuscular theory of light was favored over the wave theory...diffraction and interference of light by Thomas Young (1801) and...
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Light-Year
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science
...150 million kilometers). One light-year equals about 63,500...the sky that is eight light-years away, you are seeing light that left that object eight years ago. You are therefore looking...in the condition it was eight years ago. In this sense, a light-year can ...
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