ULTRAVIOLET in a Sentence

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Glass is almost perfectly opaque to deep ultraviolet, which is why it's hard to get a tan through a window.

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 Meanings and Examples of ULTRAVIOLET
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ultraviolet
 a.  wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays
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Example Sentence:
1  Glass is almost perfectly opaque to deep ultraviolet, which is why it's hard to get a tan through a window.
2  The ozone layer surrounding the earth protects our skin from being hurt by the ultraviolet rays.