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Photochemistry of Vision

By T. Yoshizawa (auth.) , G. Falk , E. W. Abrahamson , Ch. Baumann , C. D. B. Bridges , F. Crescitelli , H. J. A. Dartnall , R. M. Eakin , P. Fatt , T. H. Goldsmith , R. Hara , T. Hara , S. M. Japar , P. A. Liebman , J. N. Lythgoe , R. A. Morton , W. R. A. Muntz , W. A. H. Rushton , T. I. Shaw , J. R. Wiesenfeld , Herbert J. A. Dartnall (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
1972
ISBN
978-3-642-65068-0, 978-3-642-65066-6
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-65066-6
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (25058155 bytes)
Series
Handbook of Sensory Physiology 7 / 1 : Autrum,H.(Eds):Hdbk Sens.Physiology Vol 7
Edition
1
Pages
848\840
Time added
2013-12-12 02:00:00
generalZoology; Medicine/Public Health

Description

Radiation can only affect matter if absorbed by it. Within the broad range of 300-1000 nm, which we call "the visible", light quanta are energetic enough to produce excited electronic states in the atoms and molecules that absorb them. In these states the molecules may have quite different properties from those in their dormant condition, and reactions that would not otherwise occur become possible. About 80 % of the radiant energy emitted by our sun lies in this fertile band, and so long as the sun's surface temperature is maintained at about 6000° C this state of affairs will continue. This and the transparency of our atmosphere and waters have allowed the generation and evolution of life. Before life began the atmosphere probably also transmitted much of the solar short-wave radiation, but with the rise of vegetation a new product - oxygen - appeared and this, by a photochemical reaction in the upper atmosphere, led to the ozone layer that now protects us from the energetic "short-wave" quanta that once, perhaps, took part in the generation of life-molecules. Light is an ideal sensory stimulus. It travels in straight lines at great speed and, consequently, can be made to form an image from which an animal can make "true", continuous and immediate assessments of present and impending events.

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