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  2. Opacity - Wikipedia

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    An opaque substance transmits no light, and therefore reflects, scatters, or absorbs all of it. Other categories of visual appearance, related to the perception of regular or diffuse reflection and transmission of light, have been organized under the concept of cesia in an order system with three variables, including opacity, transparency and ...

  3. Transparency and translucency - Wikipedia

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    When infrared light of these frequencies strikes an object, the energy is reflected or transmitted. If the object is transparent, then the light waves are passed on to neighboring atoms through the bulk of the material and re-emitted on the opposite side of the object. Such frequencies of light waves are said to be transmitted. [10] [11]

  4. Opaque data type - Wikipedia

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    The only thing that the client can do with an object of such a type is to take its memory address, to produce an opaque pointer. If the information provided by the interface is sufficient to determine the type's size, then clients can declare variables , fields , and arrays of that type, assign their values, and possibly compare them for equality.

  5. Umbra, penumbra and antumbra - Wikipedia

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    For example, NASA's Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility defines that a body in the umbra is also within the penumbra. [2] Scale diagram of Earth's shadow, showing how the umbral cone extends beyond the orbit of the Moon (The Moon is indicated by the yellow dot.) Earth's umbra, as seen during a partial lunar eclipse

  6. Light - Wikipedia

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    Due to the magnitude of c, the effect of light pressure is negligible for everyday objects. For example, a one-milliwatt laser pointer exerts a force of about 3.3 piconewtons on the object being illuminated; thus, one could lift a U.S. penny with laser pointers, but doing so would require about 30 billion 1-mW laser pointers. [22]

  7. Radiodensity - Wikipedia

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    For example, on typical radiographs, bones look white or light gray (radiopaque), whereas muscle and skin look black or dark gray, being mostly invisible (radiolucent). Though the term radiodensity is more commonly used in the context of qualitative comparison, radiodensity can also be quantified according to the Hounsfield scale , a principle ...

  8. Opaque projector - Wikipedia

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    The opaque projector, or episcope is a device which displays opaque materials by shining a bright lamp onto the object from above. The episcope must be distinguished from the diascope , which is a projector used for projecting images of transparent objects (such as films), and from the epidiascope , which is capable of projecting images of both ...

  9. Absorption (electromagnetic radiation) - Wikipedia

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    An overview of absorption of electromagnetic radiation.This example shows the general principle using visible light as a specific example. A white light source—emitting light of multiple wavelengths—is focused on a sample (the pairs of complementary colors are indicated by the yellow dotted lines).