According to WP the typical person can see 380 to 750 nanometers of EM waves, i.e. violet to redโ€”the visible light spectrum. Would you trade that to be able to see infrared and ultraviolet as described in the details of this post?

1a. If you choose this trade, you'll be stuck with this until 2031. You will be allowed to see normally for a total of โ‰ค 30 hours a year, including so far into 2022.

2b. you will be able to see the following:

i. a band from 100 to 300 nanometersโ€”ultravioletโ€”UVA, UVB, and UVC. Your eyes will not interfere with your vision of such, through things such as absorption (e.g. your eyeballs won't glow as they generally do when exposed to UV radiation). Keep in mind that the only natural source of UV radiation is sunlight.

ii. Yellow is 565 to 590 nanometers in length. You will be able to see only a very narrow band from 557.4 to 557.6 nanometers, though with increased sensitivity.

e.g. If there were 2 glass bowls, one with small yellow pebbles at 557.4 to 557.6 and the other equal amounts of 565, 570, 575, 580, 585, and 590 (kinda orange-yellow to yellow to yellow-green pebbles), the first bowl will appear to you as yellow and the second as a very dark yellow, almost black.

iii. a band from 1500 to 5000 nanometers (1.5 ฮผm to 5 ฮผm)โ€”infrared. You will be capable of seeing thermal images, though probably only hot substances, such as rocket exhaust, molten metal, or fire.

5e. Your perception of color will change. Ultraviolet will appear as blue, regular light as green, and infrared as red. (e.g. depending on concentrations, if you see light and infrared, it will appear as green, green-yellow, yellow, orange, or red.)

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Mercury 360ยฐ in a combination of visible, infrared and ultraviolet light. Taken by the Messenger spacecraft
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We can mix paints to get any color on the visible spectrum. But can we make infrared or ultraviolet paint?
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Earth through alien eyes. Our planet seen in infrared, visible, ultraviolet, extreme UV, x-ray and gamma ray wavelengths.
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In UV-Visible spectroscopy, why aren't the absorption bands infinitely thin, since the energy for each transition is very well-defined?

What I mean is: why there are bands that cover a certain range in nanometers, instead of just the precise energy that is compatible with the related transition? I am aware that some transitions are affected by loss of degeneracy, like in complexes that are affected by Jahn-Teller distortion. But every absorption I see consist of bands of finite width. Why is that? The same question extends to infrared spectroscopy, with the transmittance bands.

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Installation of the 1st 0.8m diameter Planetary Atmosphere Spectroscopic Telescope (PAST) finished in Lenghu of Qinghai on Sunday, becoming Chinaโ€™s first ground-based planetary telescope. PAST is a near-ultraviolet-visible optical telescope for astronomical observation and study
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Video: Oakley Prizm under Visible, Ultraviolet, and Infrared Light youtube.com/watch?v=NyGugโ€ฆ
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UV-Visible Spectroscopy Question

Q18b) How do I find the percentage mass of phosphorus?

What I've currently got: 0.1M solution from 250ml. So n=cV=0.025 mol of Phosphorus. 0.025x31g=0.775g, which is already larger than 0.25g...
What did I do wrong? Help appreciated.

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NASA has released images of Jupiter captured in infrared, ultraviolet, and visible wavelengths of light, and the juxtaposition of the three side to side is incredible. Image Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/NASA/ESA, M.H. Wong and I. de Pater (UC Berkeley) et al.
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In ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy, why is the fermi level of a metal observed as a distinct cutoff?

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TIL that diamonds evaporate under UV light. Diamonds were exposed to intense light pulses in the UV-C band (the harsh ultraviolet rays filtered out by the ozone layer), and small pits in the diamond surface were visible after only a few seconds. phys.org/news/2011-07-sciโ€ฆ
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Spiral galaxy NGC 5037, in constellation of Virgo. First documented by William Herschel in 1785, the galaxy lies about 150 million light-years away. It was captured by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) that can collect ultraviolet, visible, & infrared light. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
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In UV-Visible spectroscopy, why aren't the absorption bands infinitely thin, since the energy for each transition is very well-defined?

What I mean is: why there are bands that cover a certain range in nanometers, instead of just the precise energy that is compatible with the related transition? I am aware that some transitions are affected by loss of degeneracy, like in complexes that are affected by Jahn-Teller distortion. But every absorption I see consist of bands of finite width. Why is that? The same question extends to infrared spectroscopy, with the transmittance bands.

I posted this question in AskScience too, but it's hard to get an answer there, with so many people posting, that's why I posted it here, too

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