How to Use infrared in a Sentence

infrared

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  • But an infrared camera can pick up things from heat in the dark.
    — The Conversation, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The idea would be to take a blood sample from a patient and expose it to a very short infrared pulse.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Spitzer’s infrared swirls of dust and gas clouds are portrayed by a piano.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
  • But until now, no building films could do the same for mid-infrared heat.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Work out in your private gym and relax in an infrared sauna.
    — Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 23 July 2023
  • Below, the top 9 infrared sauna blankets to reap the benefits of heat stress at home.
    — Talene Appleton, Men's Health, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The device is equipped with an infrared camera that measures the stress levels and overall health of the turf.
    — David Waldstein, New York Times, 20 June 2023
  • One used infrared light with a narrow bandwidth, and a second one with 70mm film.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The nebula is imaged here in infrared light by the James Webb Space Telescope.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 8 Feb. 2024
  • In the dark, its crew spots targets by way of an infrared spotlight that betrays the tank’s position.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Take pulse oximeters, which use red and infrared light to measure blood oxygen.
    — Victoria Song, The Verge, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Instead, Jimin pours champagne into a shower of glass and takes shots in a mess of bodies and infrared heat.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2023
  • To confirm the chill, researchers used an infrared camera to track skin cooling over the brown fat area and heat loss in the animals’ tail.
    — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 5 June 2023
  • So, a galaxy that looked bright blue billions of years ago may appear bright in infrared light to our cameras.
    — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Ahead, a breakdown of the best infrared sauna blankets on the market—plus more on why these hot devices are picking up steam.
    — Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 31 Mar. 2023
  • And the range is wide: igloo, electric, raft, infrared, wood-burning, and traditional smoke saunas, to name a few.
    — Lisa Lucas, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Eye specialists may use a device called an infrared pupillometer to measure the size of the pupils.
    — Troy Bedinghaus, Od, Verywell Health, 17 July 2023
  • The map shows the yellow infrared signatures of active fires on August 8.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 28 Aug. 2023
  • These first hours of night are prime time for hunting Russian tanks with infrared cameras, as the bulky metal armor, warmed in the sun through the day, all but glows in the dark.
    — Eric Schmitt David Guttenfelder, New York Times, 26 June 2023
  • Blue shades indicate a stronger water signal in the 6.1μm infrared band.
    — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The first images of rogue worlds came in the 2000s, when astronomers spotted a few objects still glowing in infrared light from the heat of their formation.
    — Charlie Wood, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The problem, of course, is that any enemy forces with their own infrared sights can see the spotlight, too—and pinpoint the T-72B’s position.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Police laser guns emit short bursts of infrared light that reflect off a vehicle and return to the device.
    — Doug Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2023
  • In the infrared images the team collected, most of the echidnas’ bodies glowed shades of red, orange, and pink—signs of varying degrees of heat.
    — Byjack Tamisiea, science.org, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The light emitted by the supernova became dim in the wavelengths our eyes can perceive, but then glowed brighter in infrared light.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
  • This gas glows with infrared radiation, the same type of light that JWST detects.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The infrared images from JWST highlight the glowing lanes and clouds of dust lying within the spiral arms of each galaxy.
    — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2024
  • More important, it was designed to record infrared wavelengths from the light of the most distant and therefore earliest stars in the universe.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The county and police department had used infrared drones and bloodhound teams in their search, along with dozens of volunteers.
    — Kia Fatahi, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The scientists used an infrared camera to film the animals’ eye movements.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023

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