UV B
Noun
Meaning
UV B (plural UV Bs)
Alternative form of UVB
UV-B (plural UV-Bs)
Alternative form of UVB
Alternative names
UV-B
Examples
In lush rainforests, however, where UV-B radiation and xeric stress were not in excess, light pigmentation would not have been nearly as detrimental.
Exposure to UV-B radiation causes an increased melanogenesis.
If all of the ozone were compressed to the pressure of the air at sea level, it would be only convert thick. citation Ultraviolet light UV-B energy levels at several altitudes.
In several papers in the 1990s and 2000s he struck up other positions against the mainstream, questioning the link between UV-B and melanoma rates, and that between CFCs and stratospheric ozone loss.
Nevertheless, enough of UV-B radiation at similar frequency reaches the ground to cause some sunburn, and these same wavelengths are also among those responsible for the production of vitamin D in humans.
Ozone's effect on mid-range UV-B rays is illustrated by its effect on UV-B at 290 nm, which has a radiation intensity 350 million times as powerful at the top of the atmosphere as at the surface.