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luminescent

adjective as in glowing, shining

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The bulb suggests enlightenment, while those old clay vessels, sometimes used as grave markers or funerary offerings, lend a spiritual dimension to Eliasson’s luminescent sight.

Traditional color mixing techniques, which use dyes or luminescent materials, are limited to passive and fixed color representation.

At the same time, they made the ARF7 protein luminescent, which is the protein that controls the auxin responses and which the plant cell's garbage collectors clean up to provide optimal root growth.

The new method employs luminescent proteins, chemical cousins of the bioluminescent proteins found in fireflies.

These proteins, which have been used in cancer research, employs a virus that delivers instructions to cells to produce a luminescent protein in the form of an enzyme.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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