Ultraviolet Light Penetrate Cell Walls

With the lights out and uv light shining on it the highlighter fluoresces.

Ultraviolet light penetrate cell walls.

It s the spectrum of uv. According to the study far uvc light can t penetrate the tear layer of the eye or the outer dead cell layer of skin. Healthy climate germicidal uv and uvc lights are designed to control and eliminate biological contaminants. Here is an example of fluorescing highlighter marker on a wall.

It is defined as the depth at which the intensity of the radiation inside the material falls to 1 e about 37 of its original value at or more properly just beneath the surface. If you look with just visible light you don t see much. Easily installed inside your ductwork these products emit powerful rays of ultraviolet light that penetrate the cell walls of biological contaminants on surfaces damaging their physiological structure so they can no longer grow multiply. As much as uv c light can degrade cell walls proteins and membranes of bacteria and viruses she says it also is carcinogenic or can cause cancer affecting humans.

This means it s unable to reach and damage living cells in the body.