phosphorescent
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Just days after the Trump administration completed millions of dollars in renovations on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to make it American flag-blue, residents and online users noted it had turned a phosphorescent green.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
Earlier approaches achieved this effect with flexible LEDs that used red and yellow phosphorescent dyes to create a candle-like warmth.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2025
Guided by phosphorescent compasses strapped to their wrists, the divers reached the ship in just a few minutes.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
Even without drinking the phosphorescent liquid, I can taste the sweetness of the artificial syrup I once savored.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2024
On Halloween night, all over Sacramento, children dressed up as ghosts or Frankensteins or dime-store skeletons with phosphorescent bones.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
Vocabulary lists containing phosphorescent
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