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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

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

From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various

Lucifer and Phosphor have been our cats for the last ten years: Lucifer, entirely black, Phosphor, as yellow as saffron, a real golden fleece.

From Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others by Helen M. Winslow

Phosphor fires edged the keel; a trailing rope was revealed as a luminous streak.

From The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman

The ancients called it Lucifer and Phosphor when it shone as a morning star before sunrise, and Hesperus and Vesper when it became visible after sunset.

From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Thomas Nathaniel Orchard




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