{"id":3008,"date":"2013-10-03T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"3008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/3008","title":{"rendered":"Which UV sensor should I purchase&#8211;UVA or UVB?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It depends on what and where you want to study. If you can only buy one sensor and do most of your studies indoors, you probably want to buy the <a href=\"\/product\/uva-sensor\/\">UVA Sensor<\/a> (<nobr>UVA-BTA<\/nobr>). This is because you will find more UVA-emitting sources available than UVB-emitting sources. If you can be outdoors and want look at the more sunburn-inducing radiation, choose the <a href=\"\/product\/uvb-sensor\/\">UVB Sensor<\/a> (<nobr>UVB-BTA<\/nobr>). Note that UVA is now thought to be as much of a cancer risk as UVB.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the most interesting experiments, however, look at both UVA radiation (longer-wavelength UV light) and UVB radiation (shorter-wavelength UV light) in sunlight. This means using both UVA and UVB Sensors in order to do a comparison. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It depends on what and where you want to study. If you can only buy one sensor and do most of your studies indoors, you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5073,5072,5071,2165],"class_list":["post-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-difference-compare","tag-select-choose-choice","tag-ultraviolet","tag-uva-uvb-uv-a-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}