Sentence examples for light that strikes from inspiring English sources

It's not a ray of light that strikes you.

Photoreceptor cells — neurons commonly known as rods and cones — convert light that strikes the retina into electrochemical signals.

Thus, more of the light that strikes a cell actually enters it, and light that escapes out the back is reflected back into the cell.

In 2006, the Duke researchers made headlines by demonstrating that an "invisibility cloak" could be created by bending the light that strikes a metamaterial.

The panels' aluminum surface reflects about 95 percent of the light that strikes it, Mr. Carpenter said, but it is not a mirror.

Its average reflectivity, or albedo, is 0.55 (i.e., it returns 55 percent of the light that strikes it), compared with 0.1 for the Moon and 0.8 for Triton.

It was the light that struck Lauren Wright, curator at Turner Contemporary and a transplant from Denver, via London.

Using a new small molecule designed by Bazan, Heeger built a solar cell that converts 6.7percentt of the light energy that strikes it into electricity.

Thus, the light energy that strikes the retina is converted to electrochemical energy by the rods and cones, among other nerve cells, and the electrical impulses transmitted along the nervous pathways leading to the brain are reorganized in important ways at every synapse.

Light that may strike a large patch of facets is concentrated on one ommatidium.

(When I asked him why the word "Lights" was struck out in the title, he said, "Because what I'm showing are projections of light and shadows, and shadows are light that is struck out").