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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.

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Abiotic minerals also emit their own light, called phosphorescence.

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But the phosphorescence of her work is not dimmed.

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Visitors come for its “blue tears,” a phosphorescence in the waters caused by algae.

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Unfortunately, the phosphorescence also gives the sails the slightest green tinge in daylight.

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