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Why cant you see ultra violet light?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Ultraviolet light is too energetic to interact with the chemicals in our eyes, and so it does not produce the effect of sight. A similar statement can be said for infrared, which does not have enough energy.

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