Ultraviolet Radiation Terminology

By Ian Ashdown, P. Eng., FIES
Senior Scientist, SunTracker Technologies Ltd.

A word of caution: I am going to be annoyingly pedantic here, but with good reason. The lighting industry has a century-long history of introducing unfamiliar technologies using familiar terminology. We later come to regret our choice of words when it becomes necessary to express precisely what we mean.