Some articles on sunlight, direct sunlight:
... Bates believed that the eyes were benefited by exposure to sunlight ... after sungazing—this is at variance with the well-known risk of eye damage which can result from direct sunlight observation ... and in fact the effects of strain in response to sunlight ...
... There is essentially no direct sunlight under an overcast sky, so all light is then diffuse sky radiation ... The intensity ranges (roughly) from 1⁄6 of direct sunlight for relatively thin clouds down to 1⁄1000 of direct sunlight under the extreme of thickest storm clouds ...
... Direct sunlight is too strong for most algae, which can use only about 1⁄10 the amount of light they receive from direct sunlight however, exposing an algae culture to direct sunlight (rather than ...
... Optical discs can be damaged by exposure to extreme temperatures direct sunlight may overheat the disc or damage the data layer with UV rays ... to ambient heat as well as heat build-up due to direct sunlight ... UV rays in sunlight are energetic enough to produce a photochemical reaction that changes the optical properties of the dye ...
Famous quotes containing the words sunlight and/or direct:
“Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You’ve got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven’s “Pastoral.” A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compass to direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)