How to Use electromagnetic spectrum in a Sentence

electromagnetic spectrum

noun

• The waves could be in any region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  — WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
• Chandra saw that glow in the x-ray part of the electromagnetic spectrum, while WISE glimpsed it in infrared.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2023
• The Russians surely would control the sea, the air and the electromagnetic spectrum.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• Gamma rays fall at the very end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Mar. 2016
• And and even using a part of the electromagnetic spectrum called millimeter waves to peer just into the skin.
  — Robin Pomeroy, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2021
• As a result, the light from S0-2 should be shifted into the redder parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2018
• Last, at the ultra-short-wavelength end of the electromagnetic spectrum, are X-rays and gamma rays.
  — Alan Hirshfeld, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
• That’s where Webb is looking—the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 18 July 2022
• That is because, for the first time, the event that created the waves was also noticed by telescopes that look at parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  — The Economist, 16 Oct. 2017
• The electromagnetic spectrum includes waves like the ones used by your cellphone, microwave and light bulbs.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2017
• In other words, radio waves and X-rays and visible light were all part of the same electromagnetic spectrum.
  — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2018
• The radio regime lies at one extreme of the electromagnetic spectrum, where light waves have low energies.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Apr. 2021
• But the eye is sensitive to only a sliver of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  — Alan Hirshfeld, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
• OneWeb has priority over SpaceX for the bits of the electromagnetic spectrum needed to beam the internet from the heavens.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2020
• There are two portions of the electromagnetic spectrum in which JWST most excels: near- and mid-infrared light.
  — Fionna M. D. Samuels, Scientific American, 21 July 2022
• Those frequencies are in the visible, or optical, range of the electromagnetic spectrum, rather than the microwave range, hence the name.
  — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
• And the signals only appear in the radio section of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 Jan. 2018
• Radio waves have the longest wavelength of all, with microwaves just below them in the electromagnetic spectrum.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2022
• Light from those sources has been stretched by the universe’s expansion into the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 30 July 2022
• Light is weird stuff, both particle and wave, pure energy, but just a small slice of the electromagnetic spectrum that travels faster than any other known thing in the universe.
  — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 7 Apr. 2020
• Quasars emit mostly radio waves, which have the longest wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum, much longer than those of visible light.
  — Fox News, 10 July 2018
• Methane absorbs light in the short-wave infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2024
• On the electromagnetic spectrum, UV light sits between visible light and X-rays.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2020
• Infrared light is part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  — Eric Killelea, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Dec. 2021
• Secondly, Webb views the universe in the infrared—the zone on the electromagnetic spectrum with slightly longer wavelengths than visible light.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2021
• The scope was designed to study stars, exoplanets, and galaxies in the infrared, a region of the electromagnetic spectrum just on the other side of visible light.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 29 Jan. 2020
• Ultraviolet light is part of the electromagnetic spectrum emitted by the sun and can be produced by light bulbs, also.
  — Maggie Fox, CNN, 20 Aug. 2020
• Sofia observatory has instruments that were able to observe in just the right part of the electromagnetic spectrum to detect traces of water.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 26 Oct. 2020
• The Webb Telescope, equipped with an instrument that sees light on the electromagnetic spectrum that has wavelengths longer than our eyes can see, captured the brief phase before a star’s supernova.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2023
• The electromagnetic spectrum is getting crowded, as more and more technologies tap into frequencies in the gigahertz and tens of gigahertz range.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 25 July 2023

Last Updated: 19 Oct 2024