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spectra

noun as in color spectrum

Strong match

noun as in range

Strongest matches

noun as in array

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Firstly, water vapor interferes and overlaps with the absorption spectra of many gases in the standard infrared ranges normally used for detection.

Astronomers can tell whether there’s a black hole in the galaxy by looking at large emission lines in their spectra, created by gas around the black hole swirling at high speed.

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That sparked the scientists to look back at the galaxy’s sleepy past using archived images and spectra from six different telescopes.

So, the students looked through Frebel's binder for stars with spectra, or measurements of starlight, that indicated low abundances of strontium and barium.

To demonstrate their system's capability, the researchers used it to acquire the spectra of six types of resins and employed a neural network to classify the spectra pixel-by-pixel in multiple wavelengths.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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