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The fluorescent molecule binds with the cancer cell, so the camera can catch near infrared photons emitted by any stray cancer cells the surgeon missed.
photons = particles of light
- The radiation zone, the region of the sun's interior that surrounds the core, absorbs these high-energy photons and re-emits them at a slightly lower energy level.† (source)
- A particle of matter and a particle of antimatter combine to release two new particles-called photons.† (source)
- Straining the blackness for every stray photon.† (source)
- The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive.† (source)
- Babette of electrons and photons, of whatever forces produced that gray light we took to be her face.† (source)
- Within that context of thought, ghosts and spirits are quite as real as atoms, particles, photons and quants are to a modern man.† (source)
- While the journalists from Scientific American tended to wear tweed sport jackets with pocket protectors and were crowded into one corner of the room discussing photons, most of the other patrons looked as if they'd dropped by after finishing up at work on Wall Street or Madison Avenue: Italian suit jackets slung over the backs of chairs, Hermès ties loosened, men who seemed to want to do nothing more than to scope out the women in attendance while flashing their Rolexes.† (source)
- In the old days this was done by having a photographic plate hooked up to a telescope that slowly tracked across the night sky picking up the tiny scatter of photons from the distant star.† (source)
- (ELECTRON, PROTON, NEUTRON, MESON AND PHOTON) ERASE.† (source)
- He decided to refrain from asking about Captain Kirk's use of photon torpedoes against the Klingons.† (source)
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- A photon is effectively a tiny puff of light.† (source)
- A one hundred percent conversion of mass to photons.† (source)
- Langdon had read about photons-light particles-the purest form of energy.† (source)
- We can use the BDA to put some photon pressure on the eyeball.† (source)
- But it's still going to take a lot of photons."† (source)
- Which turned black as night as they attempted to deflect the massed photons.† (source)
- What the photon is it?† (source)
- …granite fist, sunk deep into the earth's crust, on which Saint-Malo sits, and the ocean teething at it from all four sides, and the outer islands holding steady against the swirling tides; she hears cows drink from stone troughs and dolphins rise through the green water of the Channel; she hears the bones of dead whales stir five leagues below, their marrow offering a century of food for cities of creatures who will live their whole lives and never once see a photon sent from the sun.† (source)
- After a long period of successive absorption and re-emission (a photon might take a thousand years to leave the sun), gamma rays become x-rays, extreme ultraviolet, ultraviolet, then eventually turn into visible light and other forms of radiation.† (source)
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