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fluorescence

[floo-res-uhns, flaw-, floh-] / flʊˈrɛs əns, flɔ-, floʊ- /
NOUN
luminosity
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The water-soluble, FDA-approved dye used by UltraGreen.ai for fluorescence imaging is considered a generic drug and falls under the current exemption, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Emerging portable testing methods include X-ray fluorescence analysers for turmeric and handheld DNA kits to test olive oil.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

"We demonstrated the results of iron stress on phytoplankton out in the ocean, without even bringing back samples to the lab to perform molecular extractions using fluorescence measurements carried out at sea," she said.

From Science Daily • Jan. 12, 2026

"In the way fluorescence works, you shine light beams at something, and you get a different wavelength of light beams back," said Moore, who directs the Bioluminescence Hub.

From Science Daily • Dec. 19, 2025

In the daytime, the hospital was a maze of teeming, angled hallways, a blur of blazing-white overhead fluorescence.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini




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