phosphorescence
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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
It can deliver spectacular beauty, through midnight phosphorescence, breaching gray whales or playful dolphins at sunrise.
From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2015
It was a dark old man with large green eyes that gave his face a ghostly phosphorescence and with a cross of ashes on his forehead.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
