Language Devices

and Features in
Persuasive Writing

RADIO WAVES
Radio waves are a type of German physicist Heinrich
electromagnetic radiation. Hertz demonstrated the
A radio wave has a much reality of Maxwell's
longer wavelength than electromagnetic waves by
experimentally generating
visible light. Humans use
radio waves in his laboratory.
radio waves extensively for
communications.  

Examples of
Radio waves
 INFRARED RADIATION

Infrared radiation (IR) is a type

Around 1800, the German-born British-
of radiant energy, with
astronomer William
longer wavelengths than the
Herschel discovered infrared radiation.
visible light humans can see, but shorter
He did so with a simple experiment in
wavelengths than radio waves. Its range
which he dispersed sunlight through a
extends from fairly small wavelengths
prism and placed a thermometer at the
near the color red.
location of each colour.

The fire and sun are two of the most

prominent infrared radiation examples.
 VISIBLE LIGHT

Visible light is just one of many types of EM

radiation, and occupies a very small range of
the overall electromagnetic spectrum but
because we can see light with our eyes, it has
special significance to us. 

Examples of visible light are sunlight,

light bulb, fire, glow sticks, fire
crackers.

In the 17th century, Isaac

Newton discovered that prisms could
disassemble and reassemble white
light, and described the phenomenon
in his book Opticks.
ULTRAVIOLET

Ultraviolet (UV) light has shorter

wavelengths than visible light.
Although UV waves are invisible to
the human eye, some insects, such
as bumblebees, can see them. This
is similar to how a dog can hear the
sound of a whistle just outside the
hearing range of humans.

UV radiation was discovered in 1801

when the German physicist Johann
Wilhelm Ritter observed that invisible
rays just beyond the violet end of the
visible spectrum darkened silver
chloride-soaked paper more quickly
than violet light itself. 

Ultraviolet waves are emitted

by the Sun and other celestial
bodies. However, on Earth
they are found to be emitted
by black lights, welding
flashes, UV tanning beds, and
other technologies.
X-RAYS
 Examples of X-rays are Chest X-
Ray. Abdominal X-Ray. Kidney,
Ureter and Bladder X-Ray.
. X-rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation, similar to
visible light. Unlike light, however, x-rays have higher
energy and can pass through most objects, including the
body. Medical x-rays are used to generate images of
tissues and structures inside the body. If x-rays traveling
through the body also pass through an x-ray detector on
the other side of the patient, an image will be formed that
represents the “shadows” formed by the objects inside of
the body.

W.C. Röntgen reported the discovery of X-

rays in December 1895 after seven weeks of
assiduous work during which he had studied
the properties of this new type of radiation
able to go through screens of notable
thickness. He named them X-rays to
underline the fact that their nature was
unknown.
 A gamma ray, also known as gamma
radiation is a penetrating form
of electromagnetic radiation arising
from the radioactive decay of atomic
nuclei. It consists of the shortest
wavelength electromagnetic waves,
typically shorter than those of X-
rays. Natural sources of gamma rays
originating on Earth are mostly a
result of radioactive decay and
secondary radiation from atmospheric
interactions with cosmic ray particles.

GAMMA-RAYS
 Stars, including the Sun, are natural
microwave sources. Under the right
conditions, atoms and molecules can
emit microwaves. Man-made sources of
Microwave is a form microwaves include microwave ovens,
of electromagnetic masers, circuits, communication
radiation with wavelengths ranging transmission towers, and radar.
from about one meter to one
millimeter corresponding
to frequencies between 300 MHz
and 300 GHz respectively.
The prefix micro- in microwave is
not meant to suggest a wavelength
in the micrometer range. Rather,
it indicates that microwaves are
"small" (having shorter
wavelengths), compared to
the radio waves used prior to
microwave technology.

MICROWAVE Gamma rays are more

penetrating, in matter, and can
damage living cells to a great
extent. Gamma rays are used
in medicine (radiotherapy),
industry (sterilization and
Heinrich Hertz became
disinfection) the
and the nuclear
first to demonstrate industry.
the
existence of such waves by
building an apparatus that
produced and detected
microwaves in the ultra high
frequency region.
French chemist Paul
Villard first identified
gamma rays in 1900 from
the element radium.