phosphorescence

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The music stops, the lights return to the usual sickly phosphorescence, and the administrator pulls his usual demeanor back to formality as everyone recovers from their shock.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2025

Abiotic minerals also emit their own light, called phosphorescence.

From Scientific American • Jul. 27, 2022

I’m staring down, where dolphins are magically lit by phosphorescence.

From The Guardian • Nov. 4, 2018

He quotes the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, who wrote that “Havana has the yellow of Cadiz, the pink of Seville turning carmine and the green of Granada, with the slight phosphorescence of fish.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2017

His lungs were screaming when he saw it: amid the mud and reeds, a sudden flash of green; a small scrap of phosphorescence.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell