How to Use photosensitive in a Sentence

photosensitive

adjective
  • The scientists were able to prove that photosensitive neuron cells in the retina can respond to light up to five hours after death.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 16 May 2022
  • Fun fact: These devices are now bright orange, not black, but were so called back in the day, when the flight recorders used photosensitive material.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 5 May 2022
  • For example, photosensitive organoids like the one mentioned above might dimly sense a flash of light, then a return to darkness, even if the event raises no thoughts or feelings.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2023
  • To create a single transistor, a complex pattern of light is exposed to an area of a photosensitive wafer.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2021
  • In a regular camera there is a lens that focuses light on a photosensitive medium like film.
    Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2018
  • To produce his paintings, the artist works in a darkroom using a flashlight to mark images onto photosensitive paper.
    Dallas News, 12 July 2022
  • While the population of those with photosensitive epilepsy is small, the impact can be quite serious.
    Elizabeth Wolfe and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Early film used photosensitive chemicals placed on a nitrate base, which made the film extremely flammable.
    Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2018
  • The prints were created by exposing the photosensitive media directly to the sun.
    Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 4 May 2017
  • Takeda obtained soil samples from a number of locations around Fukushima and nearby prefectures and placed them on photosensitive film in a light-tight chamber for a month.
    Teju Cole, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2017
  • As the disease advanced, people displayed a symmetrical photosensitive rash across their limbs, neck and face.
    Kristin Baird Rattini, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Certain frequencies of light can trigger seizures for photosensitive epileptics, about 3 percent of those with epilepsy.
    Amanda Svachula, New York Times, 18 June 2018
  • But there is a third type, too, known as intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells, and these are not affected in color-blind people.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The game features rapidly blinking lights and other animations that could cause seizures in people with photosensitive epilepsy.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Seeing strobe lights at certain frequencies (or gifs) can trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy..
    Anne Quito, Quartz, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Today, the most common form of photosensitive resin printers use stereolithography (SLA).
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2020
  • The new technique builds a model by hardening a photosensitive resin with a laser, not unlike existing stereolithography (SLA) printers.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2020
  • His drawing was printed on film like a photo negative, then exposed to an ultra-violet light, which caused a reaction in a layer of photosensitive emulsion coated on the screen and created a stencil.
    Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Instead, the information is being stored on a new medium called Piql, which, according to a press release, uses high-resolution photosensitive film to store data.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 5 Apr. 2017
  • Instead, the information is being stored on a new medium called Piql, which, according to a press release, uses high-resolution photosensitive film to store data.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 5 Apr. 2017
  • Note: There’s a debate about whether or not cyclists should use flashing lights due to the potential effect on people with photosensitive epilepsy, which is particularly triggered by deep-red colors, like taillights.
    Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 7 Apr. 2020
  • There’s a debate about whether or not cyclists should use flashing lights due to the potential effect on people with photosensitive epilepsy, which is particularly triggered by deep-red colors, like taillights.
    Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 7 Apr. 2020
  • The company embraced an emerging technology at the time that used photosensitive paper to capture images that could be easily mass reproduced in print.
    Dee Depass, Star Tribune, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Cells in the retina continue to express the photosensitive protein after a one-time injection of the virus, while physical implants could degrade and stop working, accompanied by risks of infection.
    Connie Chang Chinchio, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Many games, including every title in the Ubisoft catalog, include a similar on-screen warning for photosensitive players.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Lewis, a freelance journalist who suffers from photosensitive epilepsy and a connective tissue disorder that results in slow healing from injuries and impairs her ability to run or move quickly.
    oregonlive, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Light falls onto an array of photosensitive silicon nanowires that function as photoreceptor cells.
    Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 Sep. 2017
  • These pictures produced with photosensitive materials, but without a camera, expanded the Bauhaus’s vision of photography as a way of imagining new worlds.
    Tobias Grey, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2018
  • Exposing photosensitive skin to sunlight can also increase risk for cancer.
    Lindsey Murray, Good Housekeeping, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Data was recorded to magnetic tape and later transferred to a photosensitive paper strip recorder or other computer-compatible media and then plotted using an IBM 1130.
    IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2021

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