According to Business Wire, in 2003: Ten percent of Americans spend on average $300 per year to tan indoors. This equates to a total US market for tanning of over $9 billion per year, and does not include the $3 billion tanning products market. Enhancements in technology and consumer acceptance are fueling the industry's growth. A suntan is the result of injury to the epidermis, the top layer of your skin.
the most striking example of fluorescence occurs when the absorbed radiation is in the ultraviolet region of the spectrum and thus invisible to the human eye while the emitted light is in the visible region which gives the fluorescent substance a distinct color that can only be seen when exposed to uv light
strobe light. A lamp that produces very short, intense flashes of light by means of an electric discharge in a gas. The ability of strobe lights to freeze the motion of rapidly moving objects makes them very useful in photography and in making measurements of vibration or other types of high-speed motion.