How to Use electromagnetic radiation in a Sentence

electromagnetic radiation

noun

• These black holes emit a jet of matter and electromagnetic radiation that moves at close to the speed of light.
  — Eleonora Troja, The Conversation, 21 Dec. 2022
• Powerful bursts of the right kind of electromagnetic radiation can cripple or kill, or just cause enough pain to make someone go away.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Nov. 2021
• Now such a puzzle has come in the form of filaments of electromagnetic radiation hundreds of thousands of light-years long—the likes of which have never before been seen.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2020
• The first step: separating the contents of the message from the electromagnetic radiation picked up by the telescope, leaving them with a file of binary data.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2023
• Radar works by beaming a pulse of electromagnetic radiation into the sky.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2020
• About 15 million years after the big bang, the entire universe had cooled to the point where the electromagnetic radiation left over from its hot beginning was at about room temperature.
  — Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2021
• Instead of using electromagnetic radiation to produce imagery, the researchers have found a way to use low-power radio waves to track the movement and figure of humans through a wall.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 15 June 2018
• And the other is that the quantum counterpart of electromagnetic radiation, the (spin=1) photon, is known to exist and has had its properties measured.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• The plasmas throw out electromagnetic radiation, such as flashes of light and x-rays, and particles like electrons and neutrons.
  — WIRED, 10 Mar. 2023
• Quasars are galactic cores where dust and gas fall into a black hole and release brilliant flares of electromagnetic radiation.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
• Ghosts are all around us—at least in the form of invisible waves of electromagnetic radiation emanating from power lines and Wi-Fi routers, flying through walls and zooming across the sky—and Niday’s job was to track them down.
  — Stephen Kurczy, Wired, 3 Aug. 2021
• These variations are home to clumps of dark matter, a substance that emits little, if any, electromagnetic radiation.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 27 Jan. 2021
• Massive vats of the stuff are tucked deep into boreholes in the earth's crust to limit background noise like electromagnetic radiation that could interfere with measurements.
  — Joe Lindsey, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2019
• Should that object possess an asymmetrical electric charge (where one side has slightly more charge than the other), its spin could emit electromagnetic radiation in the form of microwaves.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 11 June 2018
• And the discovery is all thanks to quasars—a type of active galactic nucleus powered by a supermassive black hole at the heart of a galaxy that emits huge amounts of electromagnetic radiation.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2023
• Over the past couple of years, solar activity—as measured by the number of dark spots on the sun’s face—has been increasing, with solar outbursts such as flares of electromagnetic radiation and ejections of blobs of plasma on the rise.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2023
• This is a tiny sampling of the much larger full span of the electromagnetic radiation spectrum, which includes everything from the much shorter very high-energy x-rays and gamma rays to the much longer wavelengths of microwaves and radio waves.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• That is not true of a merger between black holes, the strong gravity of which prevents any electromagnetic radiation escaping.
  — The Economist, 16 Oct. 2017
• Gamma rays are weightless, high-energy packets of electromagnetic radiation — the same stuff that makes up light.
  — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2024
• The ‘hydrogen line’ is the electromagnetic radiation spectral line that is created by a change in the energy state of neutral hydrogen atoms.
  — James Hill, Washington Post, 20 June 2019
• Nothing can escape their grasp, not even electromagnetic radiation such as light waves.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2019
• Our brains can also weave the visible light portion of electromagnetic radiation into a beautiful mountain or the glow on our mother’s face.
  — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 22 Sep. 2022
• The all-optical nature of the vapor cells means that even if they are hit with a massive burst of electromagnetic radiation, like that from a solar flare, they won't be permanently damaged because there is no circuitry to fry.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2018
• This has included solar flares — large eruptions of electromagnetic radiation lasting minutes to hours and traveling outward at the speed of light.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
• Rather than heating by steam as in traditional saunas, infrared saunas use lamps that release electromagnetic radiation into the air.
  — Laura Peill, Outside Online, 11 Feb. 2019
• Their next task is detecting the star's former location through a search for electromagnetic radiation.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 19 Aug. 2019
• One of them was completely enclosed within a hefty capsule of cork, coiled wire, glass wool, and steel, through which no electromagnetic radiation could pass; anyone living inside was completely cut off from the Earth’s magnetic field.
  — Jo Marchant, Wired, 1 Sep. 2020
• Visible light is a form of electromagnetic radiation, which is made-up of photons—particles of light—that travel in different wavelengths.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• Instead they are cooked up by the brain from mixtures of different wavelengths of colorless electromagnetic radiation.
  — Anil K. Seth, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2019
• Both solar flares, which are sudden eruptions of electromagnetic radiation from the Sun, and coronal mass ejections, which are expulsions of a large amount of matter and magnetic fields from the Sun, can produce energetic particles.
  — Lulu Zhao, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024