What does UV-C stand for?

Far-UltraViolet

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Science, medicine, engineering, etc.

Other Resources:

<< Previous	Abbreviation Database Surfer		Next >>
University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA) University Village (University of California, Riverside Riverside, CA, USA) Unmanned Vehicle Upper Volta Upright Vacuum Ureterovesical Uterine-Vulval Utility Vault (electrical underground vaults) Near-UltraViolet Ultraviolet-Biological		Ultra-Violet Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory Ultraviolet Laser Induced Fluorescence UltraViolet-Visible Spectroscopy Ultraviolet and Electron Beam Ultraviolet/Oxidation Ultraviolet/Reverse Osmosis Unified Vision 2001 (Joint Experiment) Ultraviolet A Und Viele Andere (German: And Many Others) Underground Volleyball of America

Samples in periodicals archive:

In the meantime, far-ultraviolet spectra taken by another craft, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, as it flew over the impact site show no obvious signs of water--which, if present, scientists had hoped the Centaur crash would have released.

Moon crash delivers puny plume; signs of iron and mercury, but not ...

Byline: ANI Washington, Dec 13 (ANI): A team of German and American astronomers have discovered the hottest white dwarf in the Universe, using NASA's space-based Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE).

Astronomers discover Universe's hottest white dwarf

That's because clouds of hydrogen gas absorb far-ultraviolet light, and the most distant galaxies have the largest amount of hydrogen gas between them and Earth (SN: 2/24/96, p.

Crisis in the cosmos? Galaxy-formation theory is in peril

Hubble can zero in on selected regions of a galaxy, imaging them at longer ultraviolet wavelengths, but at considerably higher resolution, than the UIT can at far-ultraviolet wavelengths.

Getting the blues: picturing the universe in the far ultraviolet

Clusters of hot, young stars flaunt their brilliance in the first far-ultraviolet photograph ever taken of the spiral galaxy M101 (top).

Galaxy M101: an ultraviolet portrait

The spectrograph recorded far-ultraviolet emissions from atomic oxygen in Europa's atmosphere.

Solar system scenes: images and spectra offer new views from Venus to ...

Collectively known as Astro 2, these instruments will take the spectra of astronomical objects and study the polarization of their light -- all at far-ultraviolet wavelengths.

Launches and liftoffs in '95: focusing on the star of the solar system

Using the Hubble Space Telescope to observe in the far-ultraviolet -- wavelengths that detect the highest-altitude debris -- Clarke's team measured how fast the wind blows in Jupiter's upper atmosphere and thermosphere, some 100 to 400 kilometers above the planet's visible clouds.

Jovian comet crash: puzzles and insights