A recent paper The nature of light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols, M. O. Andreae, A.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Warming Question, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Chlorophyll and the other light-absorbing pigments absorb light at very specific frequencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Briffa: Large-Scale Decline in Ring Widths « Climate Audit] Reference

A new technique for generating really light-absorbing black tints is advancing telescope manufacture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: February 2, 2003 - February 8, 2003 Archives] Reference

Solar companies have developed light-absorbing roof tiles as a more aesthetically pleasing alternative to solar panels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raise the Roof: Power Source] Reference

If aerosols consist of soot or other light-absorbing materials, then light is directly absorbed which leads to heating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aerosols] Reference

By selective context and vagueness, then, NASA paints an impression that only light-absorbing substances can be heated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Endgame] Reference

This conjecture has mistakenly focused on specifically light-absorbing gases, however, ignoring heat-absorbing gases altogether.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Endgame] Reference

Georgia Tech scientist Jud Ready made a grid of millions of nanotubes and coated them with a light-absorbing semiconductor material.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tubes of Light] Reference

PHILLIPS: Now Barron is growing Nano sized forest of light - absorbing rod, modeled after those amazing light-absorbing rods of the retina.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2008] Reference

Smooth as brushed metal, almost light-absorbing, but contoured so strangely that she couldn't tell if she was staring at its head or its tail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

But there were no materials at the time capable of efficiently channeling light in the precise way required, nor did we have the right light-absorbing dyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Solar power, heat engines, good stuff] Reference

Avoid the use of light-absorbing colours in wall papers if you are anxious to create sympathetic cheerfulness in your rooms, and an appearance of winning comfort.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Interior Decoration] Reference

Bourgeois's sewn figures, by the same token, for all their demented bodily and facial stiffness, leave most tangibly a sense of the nubby, light-absorbing fabrics they are made from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daring and Disturbing] Reference

A dolphin might have a man-level mind, but in the viscous and light-absorbing medium of sea water a dolphin is condemned to the flipper and to a dependence on sound rather than vision.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

The fabric, with its light-absorbing qualities, totally obscured the form within it—except for the edges, which rippled with a scintillating black luminescence, as if the edges were afire.    From Wordnik.com.  [BLACK FIRE] Reference

The zinc sulfide screens scintillated in response to both kinds of particles, but the relative brightness of the flashes was determined by means of light-absorbing screens (F) of known absorption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference

The experts at Durham University are developing light-absorbing materials for use in the production of thin-layer solar photovoltaic PV cells which are used to convert light energy into electricity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speedlinking 8/23/07] Reference

Blue light-absorbing intraocular lens and retinal pigment epithelium protection in vitro.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

Small sensors, on the other hand, pack too many light-absorbing pixels into a tiny space.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pogue's Posts] Reference

Innovalight, the Sunnyvale, Calif. company that liquid-processes light-absorbing materials.    From Wordnik.com.  [VentureBeat] Reference

Traditionally, solar cells consist of a single flat layer of a light-absorbing semiconductor.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Earth] Reference

The UCSC researchers focused on the semiconductor material used as a light-absorbing anode in the PEC cell.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

When studying the climate, scientists include the light-absorbing properties of carbon particles in their models.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

The black iMEP, the MP-701-388, features a screen on the front and a light-absorbing coating to ward off glare outdoors.    From Wordnik.com.  [TWICE - Digital Imaging News] Reference

The dust particles are each attached both to the enzyme and to light-absorbing dye molecules that are used in some solar cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Earth] Reference

Nature "engineers" rings of light-harvesting complexes, each hosting a certain number of chlorophylls (photosynthetic light-absorbing pigments).    From Wordnik.com.  [University of California, Riverside Campus News] Reference

They'd used the same anti-reflective light-absorbing coating that covered the semaphore, but the anchor wasn't made of external shield material.    From Wordnik.com.  ["BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader] Reference

Such a system also permits other light-absorbing pigment molecules, such as carotenoids, to transfer energy into the system in an efficient manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference

Scientists want to improve their models by adding brown carbon particles, with light-absorbing properties that lie between organic and black carbon.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

The project would blanket 25 square miles of Inner Mongolia - slightly larger than the size of Manhattan - with a sea of black, light-absorbing glass.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

They are surrounded by thin organic solar cells applied using a dip-coating process, and a light-absorbing dye or polymer is also sprayed onto the cell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technology Review RSS Feeds] Reference

In the present study, the authors regenerated rhodopsins from species of Pacific fish and examined their light-absorbing properties with a spectrophotometer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue] Reference

The Twins are looking into different kinds of light-absorbing paints and materials, similar to how Seattle addressed background issues when Safeco Field opened.    From Wordnik.com.  [SI.com] Reference

This close-up shows the brown light-absorbing material for the three-dimensional solar cell grown on optical fiber by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Over the past ten years or so, most research has focused on developing organic cells in which the active light-absorbing material is made up of long conjugated polymer chains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impact Lab] Reference

The material, created by researchers at Caltech, consists of a flexible array of light-absorbing silicon microwires and light-reflecting metal nanoparticles embedded in a polymer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technology Review RSS Feeds] Reference

Both particles and light-absorbing matter are efficiently removed during the long residence time of spring water while in aquifers ".    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Delhi still battling heat wave] Reference