How to Use electromagnetic spectrum in a Sentence

electromagnetic spectrum

noun
  • Gamma rays fall at the very end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
    — Quanta Magazine, 2 Mar. 2016
  • The waves could be in any region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
    — WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The electromagnetic spectrum includes waves like the ones used by your cellphone, microwave and light bulbs.
    — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2017
  • And and even using a part of the electromagnetic spectrum called millimeter waves to peer just into the skin.
    — Robin Pomeroy, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The radio regime lies at one extreme of the electromagnetic spectrum, where light waves have low energies.
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Visible light makes up a small segment of the electromagnetic spectrum and is the only part the human eye can see.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Microwaves are a range of frequences in the electromagnetic spectrum.
    — Scott Pelley, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • That’s where Webb is looking—the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 18 July 2022
  • Last, at the ultra-short-wavelength end of the electromagnetic spectrum, are X-rays and gamma rays.
    — Alan Hirshfeld, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
  • But the eye is sensitive to only a sliver of the electromagnetic spectrum.
    — Alan Hirshfeld, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Next to visible light on the electromagnetic spectrum is infrared light.
    — Lyndi McNulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 30 Oct. 2019
  • In other words, radio waves and X-rays and visible light were all part of the same electromagnetic spectrum.
    — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2021
  • Radio waves have the longest wavelength of all, with microwaves just below them in the electromagnetic spectrum.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The Russians surely would control the sea, the air and the electromagnetic spectrum.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Methane absorbs light in the short-wave infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Such a merger will also give off energy all across the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to gamma rays.
    — The Economist, 16 Oct. 2017
  • One change that’s clearly needed is in the way the regulators in most countries divvy up the electromagnetic spectrum.
    — Mark A. McHenry, IEEE Spectrum, 18 Aug. 2015
  • That is because, for the first time, the event that created the waves was also noticed by telescopes that look at parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.
    — The Economist, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Light from those sources has been stretched by the universe’s expansion into the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
    — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 30 July 2022
  • Quasars emit mostly radio waves, which have the longest wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum, much longer than those of visible light.
    — Fox News, 10 July 2018
  • Black on the color spectrum While there’s no black in a rainbow, photons anywhere in the electromagnetic spectrum can be seen as black.
    — Michael J. Murdoch, The Conversation, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Ultraviolet light is part of the electromagnetic spectrum emitted by the sun and can be produced by light bulbs, also.
    — Maggie Fox, CNN, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Israel already controls Gaza’s land, sea, and air access, as well as its electromagnetic spectrum.
    — Aaron David Miller, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2023
  • And the signals only appear in the radio section of the electromagnetic spectrum.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Those frequencies are in the visible, or optical, range of the electromagnetic spectrum, rather than the microwave range, hence the name.
    — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The researchers combined this with data from other telescopes across the electromagnetic spectrum.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • As a result, the light from S0-2 should be shifted into the redder parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Chandra saw that glow in the x-ray part of the electromagnetic spectrum, while WISE glimpsed it in infrared.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2023
  • During its life cycle, a star emits light across the electromagnetic spectrum, including some waves invisible to the human eye.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Sofia observatory has instruments that were able to observe in just the right part of the electromagnetic spectrum to detect traces of water.
    — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 26 Oct. 2020

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