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Six example sentences with infrared, each labelled with its topic.
A converted camera records in infrared, turning green foliage snow white and a blue sky nearly black.
Photography
Astronomers cooled the detector to trap faint infrared from dust clouds that block the light our eyes can register.
Science
The clinic's thermal camera reads infrared off the skin, mapping warm patches where circulation has quietly failed.
Medicine
A television remote sends pulses of infrared, which is why it works fine in the dark but not around a corner.
Technology
Carbon dioxide absorbs infrared leaving the ground and sends part of it back, which is the whole greenhouse effect.
Environment
Conservators photographed the panel in infrared and found the artist's first sketch hiding beneath the finished paint.
Art
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