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ultraviolet radiation  

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  • ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION WAS discovered as a result of the observation that silver salts darken on exposure to sunlight. In 1801, the German physicist Johann Wilhelm Ritter first observed that invisible electromagnetic radiation was responsible for this darkening. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change; Radiation, Ultraviolet]

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