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UK
/fˌəʊtəʊsˈɛnsɪtˌɪv/
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ADJECTIVE
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sensitive to visible light
photographic film is light-sensitive
How To Use photosensitive In A Sentence
- Photosensitive materials are also utilized in vidicons, which are devices used to convert images to electrical signals.
- Some polymers, such as most polyimides and polycarbonates, are not photosensitive and are typically processed using photoresist patterning and reactive ion etching.
- Stereolithography works by steering laser beams through a photosensitive liquid that solidifies when it is exposed to enough light.
- We would not call a dragonfly eye and a human eye homologous—they seem so different, in so many ways, and the evidence suggests that our last common ancestor was eyeless, with little more than photosensitive spots. PZ Myers - The Deepest Links (on Evolution)
- Most SLE patients are photosensitive, that is, they are sensitive to the sun and other forms of light. THE LUPUS HANDBOOK FOR WOMEN
- She needs only light, photosensitive paper, an object to block the light and chemicals to fix the image afterward.
- An electron tube with a photosensitive cathode.
- However, if only the ligand is photosensitive, then light can only influence the metal-ligand binding indirectly.
- Cesium and rubidium lose their valence electrons especially easily when light strikes their polished surfaces and are photosensitive over the full visible spectrum.
- The process also produces a wafer, which is then exposed to photosensitive chemicals -- in a process known as photolithography to allow the transfer of circuitry to the wafer. Undefined