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Six example sentences with chlorophyll, each labelled with its topic.
Autumn leaves turn red only after chlorophyll breaks down, revealing the orange compounds hidden beneath it all summer.
Science
Blanching broccoli for sixty seconds fixes the chlorophyll, so the florets stay bright instead of fading to olive.
Cooking
Satellites map chlorophyll across the ocean surface to show where plankton blooms feed the season's fisheries.
Environment
In infrared photographs the trees glow white, since chlorophyll absorbs red light but lets the longer wavelengths bounce back.
Photography
Two French chemists named chlorophyll in 1817 after the Greek words for green leaf, though its structure took another century to work out.
History
Engineers mimic the light-trapping ring at the heart of chlorophyll in dye-based solar cells that still work under cloudy skies.
Technology
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