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2. Photokeratitis - Wikipedia

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   Photokeratitis can be prevented by using sunglasses or eye protection that transmits 5–10% of visible light and absorbs almost all UV rays. Additionally, these glasses should have large lenses and side shields to avoid incidental light exposure. Sunglasses should always be worn, even when the sky is overcast, as UV rays can pass through ...

3. Eye protection - Wikipedia

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   Safety glasses or spectacles, although often used as a catch-all term for all types of eye protection, specifically revers to protective equipment that closely resembles common eye wear. To meet most national standards, spectacles must include side shields to reduce the ability of debris to get behind the lenses from the side.

4. Photochromic lens - Wikipedia

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   Once inside, away from the triggering UV light, the cold lenses take longer to regain their transparency than warm lenses. A number of sunglass manufacturers and suppliers including INVU, BIkershades, Tifosi, Intercast, Oakley , ZEISS , Serengeti Eyewear , and Persol provide tinted lenses that use photochromism to go from a dark to a darker state.

5. Sunglasses - Wikipedia

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   Jean-Marie-Théodore Fieuzal (1836-1888) was the first to argue for UV protection with (yellow) shaded glasses, and by 1899, Rodenstock GmbH produced possibly the first sunglasses intended for shielding eyes from UV light and not just glare. [16]

6. Solar viewer - Wikipedia

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   Standard sunglasses are unable to filter out eye-damaging radiation. Solar viewers can be used for safe viewing of solar events such as eclipses . The recommended optical density of this eyewear is 5, meaning that the solar viewing filter only permits 1 part in 100,000 of incident light to pass through.

7. Mirrored sunglasses - Wikipedia

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   The main purpose of sunglasses has been, and still is, protection from the Sun's damaging UV rays. Throughout history, progression of the sunglasses began to change to serve more as a fashion stable, than eye wear for sun protection. The term "Sunglasses" began being used around the 1900s.