fluorescent
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If the specific virus RNA is present in the amplified sample, it fluoresces under light -- this signal is then used to denote a positive test.
From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2023
The sphere will soon be filled with 20,000 tons of a liquid scintillator—an organic solution that fluoresces, or scintillates, when excited by a neutrino interacting with nuclei in its atoms.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 22, 2023
“If the item is glass, and fluoresces neon green under a black light, it contains uranium dioxide 100 percent of the time.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2022
This may help them hide while babysitting eggs; the algae that grows on the barnacles fluoresces the same color as the fish.
From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2022
It distills without much decomposition, giving a brown-yellow oil, which fluoresces strongly, and has a somewhat pungent smell.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 by Various
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