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phosphoresce

[fos-fuh-res] / ˌfɒs fəˈrɛs /




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He found that many organisms phosphoresce under ultraviolet light, so he created dramatic Technicolor images of the teeming biodiversity on the forest floor.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2023

It is very slowly released, but the ceramic can be induced to phosphoresce by heating—a process called “thermoluminescence.”

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

But from numerous experiments I find that bodies will phosphoresce in actual contact with the negative pole.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891 by Various

I took a screen made of zincblende, which will phosphoresce when the emanations of radium fall upon it.

From The Life Radiant by Whiting, Lilian

He insisted to himself that he was in mortal danger of being fooled by his imagination—that a certain indelible imprint on his brain had begun to phosphoresce.

From Paul Faber, Surgeon by MacDonald, George