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What is an ultraviolet ray?

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Anonymous

10y ago
Updated: 2/11/2022

You cannot see ultraviolet rays, you can only see electromagnetic waves that are within the visible light spectrum; therefore it does not have a color. It is simply referred to as ultraviolet because its respective band on the EM spectrum lies above our visible violet frequencies.

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