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Phosphor

[fos-fer, -fawr] / ˈfɒs fər, -fɔr /
NOUN
morning star
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Furthermore, one of the mobile developers in the Partners programme, Phosphor Games, is creating an action fantasy title named Horn, clearly aimed at the dedicated gaming audience.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2012

Pythagoras is said to have been the first to identify Hesperus with Phosphor, as the "Silver planet both of eve and morn," and by Plato the same fact is recognized.

From Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky by Edward Singleton Holden

Phosphor bronze is used for very strong castings and bearings.

From Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Electric, Forge and Thermit Welding together with related methods and materials used in metal working and the oxygen process for removal of carbon by Harold P. (Harold Phillips) Manly

Hesper and Phosphor are simply the one planet Venus, which according to its position with the sun, becomes the morning or evening star.

From A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' by Mrs. Alfred Gatty

Phosphorus is known to enter into the composition of the human brain, and a trenchant German writer has exclaimed, 'Ohne Phosphor, kein Gedanke!'

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall




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