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Definition of Luminescing
1. luminesce [v] - See also: luminesce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Luminescing
Literary usage of Luminescing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"... power of luminescing when reheated, regains the power of thermo-luminescence
when exposed to Röntgen rays. He finds that this restoration is also ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1903)
"SP Thompson also showed that fluorspar which by prolonged heating has lost its
luminescing power, regains the power of thermo-luminescence on exposure to ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"... which by prolonged heating has lost its power of luminescing when re-heated,
regains the power of thermo-Iumi- nescence when exposed to Ro'ntgen rays. ..."
4. Light Visible and Invisible: A Series of Lectures Delivered at the Royal by Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1897)
"In some cases the power of thermo-luminescing can be revivified by fresh exposure
to light, or by stimulation by an electric spark or by kathode rays. ..."
5. The Chemical Effects of Alpha Particles and Electrons by Samuel Colville Lind (1921)
"The power of luminescing diminishes as the coloring increases. (Mine.
Curie, "Radioactivite," II, p. 219 [1910].) The color produced in glass and minerals ..."
6. The Nature of Animal Light by Edmund Newton Harvey (1920)
"... extract containing luciferin and luciferase and luminescing with a bluish
light, is to reduce the intensity and change the shade toward the yellow. ..."
7. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1904)
"... and magnesium, and the addition of these substances to pure zinc ammonium
sulphate gave luminescing blendes. For a blende of very strong yellowish green ..."
8. Theories of Organic Chemistry by Ferdinand August Karl Henrich (1922)
"A comparative study of luminescing substances has led to the conclusion that the
phenomenon is due to the specific arrangement of the atoms in the molecule, ..."
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