light-absorbing

By selective context and vagueness, then, NASA paints an impression that only light-absorbing substances can be heated.

Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

Purple-leaved sage, with its musky mound of dull, light-absorbing foliage, and the hardy herbaceous salvias have been a mainstay, but there are several dozen "exotics" that are perfectly hardy given the right conditions.

Stunning salvias Dan Pearson 2010

This conjecture has mistakenly focused on specifically light-absorbing gases, however, ignoring heat-absorbing gases altogether.

Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

And the blackest beer I know -- not to say the sludgiest (that might be Mikkeller Beer Geek Brunch, rating: 83, or Brooklyn Black Ops, rating: 88) -- but the most frighteningly pagan, light-absorbing, instant-buzzing, frost-defying beer I've ever had is Southern Tier's imposing Iniquity Black.

Alex Remington: Southern Tier Iniquity Black: Abandon All Other Dark Beers, Ye Who Enter Here 2010

If aerosols consist of soot or other light-absorbing materials, then light is directly absorbed which leads to heating.

Aerosols 2010

Over the past ten years or so, most research has focused on developing organic cells in which the active light-absorbing material is made up of long conjugated polymer chains.

Organic Solar Cells Starting To Take Off In The Renewable Energy Field | Impact Lab 2009

A recent paper The nature of light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols, M. O. Andreae, A.

Global Warming Question, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

In addition to providing a weighting function to determine biologically-effective doses, action spectra are useful for helping to identify the initial light-absorbing photoreceptor responsible for triggering a light-driven biological response [83].

Potential impacts of direct mechanisms of climate change on human health in the Arctic 2009

The zinc sulfide screens scintillated in response to both kinds of particles, but the relative brightness of the flashes was determined by means of light-absorbing screens (F) of known absorption.

Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna 2007

I'd never looked at the Time Warner Center public office area from the perspective of a civilian and therefore hadn't noticed that everything a visitor sees -- from the moment he or she walks through the revolving door entrance and navigates security to the ride up in the high-speed elevator -- is covered in light-absorbing black slate and brushed steel.

Chez Pazienza: The Outsider: My Brief Adventure in the Fortress of Mega-Media 2008