Sentence examples for transmits light from inspiring English sources

As noted earlier, a thin rod or fibre of glass or other transparent material transmits light by repeated internal reflections, even when the rod is somewhat curved.

It weighs only one per cent as much as glass, transmits light more effectively, and is a better insulator, resulting in a thirty-per-cent saving in energy costs.

The designers may use stainless-steel cladding, reinforced glass or even translucent concrete, a new material embedded with strands of glass that transmits light and shadow through seemingly impervious walls.

In real experiments recently, Dr. Farhi told the movie fans, physicists had managed to "teleport" a single elementary particle, a photon, which transmits light, about one and a half miles, "a little less exotic than what you see in the movie".

With a thickness of less than one thousandth of a millimetre, the "glass" (it's really a film) transmits light visible to the human eye, while selectively capturing and converting ultraviolet and near-infrared light into electricity to power a mobile device and extend its battery life.

In addition to these two lens arrays, a compound microscope consists of a body tube, in which the lenses can be housed and kept an appropriate distance apart; a condenser lens that lies beneath the specimen stage and focuses light upon the specimen; and an illumination system, which either transmits light through or reflects light from the object being examined.

We can even figure out what material something is made of based on the way it reflects and transmits light: metal is opaque and typically very reflective; plastic, which is more dull and often translucent, absorbs some of the light and reflects the rest in all directions.

A second filter is oriented so that it transmits light only if it has a different polarization--with the result that the two filters ordinarily block all light.