Definitionn. a fluorescence that persists after the bombarding radiation has ceased
Last update: January 2, 2016
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Formerly the sparkand absorption-spectra were the sole methods available; a third method was introduced by Crookes, who submitted the oxides, or preferably the basic sulphates, to the action of a negative electric discharge in vacuo, and investigated the phosphorescence induced spectroscopically. [adjective]
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The phosphorescence, that bluey greeny. [Please select]
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A man floundered near me, in a splutter of phosphorescence. [Please select]
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Phosphorus seems to play no part here, in spite of the name of phosphorescence which is sometimes bestowed upon the Glow-worm's gleam. [Please select]
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Besides, as laying-time approaches, the phosphorescence of the eggs is already made manifest without this clumsy midwifery. [Please select]
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The blue water stirred by the bow was wonderfully bright, a mass of coruscating phosphorescence that lighted the prow like a lamp. [Please select]
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A rifle has rung out beside us, making a brief and sudden flash of phosphorescence. [Please select]
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[Illustration] It is not merely on land that this phenomenon of phosphorescence is to be seen in living forms. [Please select]
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But if such sights are to be seen on the surface, what must not be the phosphorescence of the depths. [Please select]
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Across the north was a dim glow of phosphorescence, precursor of the aurora, from which occasionally trembled for an instant a single shaft of light. [Please select]
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The line of the horizon was clear and hard against the sky, and in one particular quarter it showed black against a silvery climbing phosphorescence that grew and grew. [Please select]
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