incandescence
Example Sentences
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These fragments themselves pancaked, creating a series of brief but powerful flashes of light as they heated to incandescence.
From Scientific American • Feb. 15, 2023
Patrick Mahomes’s incandescence, Travis Kelce’s reliability and Reid’s guidance have planted the Chiefs atop the NFL.
From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2023
“Spots of incandescence may remain near the vent, along channels, and at the flow front for days or weeks as the lava flows cool,” the observatory’s activity summary said.
From Washington Times • Dec. 13, 2022
Only half-listening to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s tale of sin and repentance, she saw a pillar of light slice down, as if piercing through the ceiling, and felt as if she melted into the incandescence.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2022
For she never grasped—not at any rate with her mind—what, with such incandescence, he tried to tell her on these Saturday afternoons.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
Vocabulary lists containing incandescence
The Pearl
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Power Suffix: -escence
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Physical Science - Energy - Introductory
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