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solar radiation
noun as in solar energy
Strongest match
Weak matches
Example Sentences
During the 2018 wildfires in British Columbia, there was such a persistent smoke plume that people claimed to have detected a reduction in crop generation under it, because of the decrease in solar radiation.
There was such a persistent smoke plume that crops suffered because of the decrease in solar radiation.
Window glass is “one of the weakest links” in a building’s defense against solar radiation, Rempel said, because it readily transmits heat.
During the day, heat comes from solar radiation — the sunlight that streams through windows and beats down on roofs and walls.
Adding trees to snow-covered regions, for example, could increase the absorption of solar radiation, possibly leading to warming.
On the other hand, the moon is small and without an atmosphere or a magnetic field to deflect solar radiation.
If we can imagine the earth cut off from the solar radiation, the air would cease to move.
Such a frozen fog is an effective reflector of solar radiation.
Had no other obstacle existed, this alone would have been sufficient to render the observations on solar radiation impossible.
Here was a means of convening solar radiation into heat, then, that offered tremendous commercial possibilities!
As a rule, even when the sky is clear, about one-half of the solar radiation is lost during the day by atmospheric absorption.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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