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Ultraviolet light (UV) is electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths between 10 and 400 nm in the domain between X-rays and optical visible light. The UV spectrum is subdivided in different energy domains, from near UV (400–300 nm; 3.10–4.13 eV) to Extreme UV (121–10 nm; 10.2–124 eV). Vacuum ultraviolet light, VUV, corresponds to light having a wavelength between 100 and 200 nm (or 6.2–12.4 eV).
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Quintanilla, J.C. (2014). VUV. In: Amils, R., et al. Encyclopedia of Astrobiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27833-4_1674-2
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