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Definition of Phosphorescence
1. Noun. A fluorescence that persists after the bombarding radiation has ceased.
Definition of Phosphorescence
1. n. The quality or state of being phosphorescent; or the act of phosphorescing.
Definition of Phosphorescence
1. Noun. The emission of light without any perceptible heat; the quality of being phosphorescent. ¹
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Definition of Phosphorescence
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Medical Definition of Phosphorescence
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Phosphorescence
Literary usage of Phosphorescence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1920)
"THE phosphorescence OF RENILLA. BY GH PARKER. (Read April 24, 1920.) The phosphorescence
of the sea-pansy Renilla has been known for a long time. ..."
2. Elementary Treatise on Physics, Experimental and Applied: For the Use of by Adolphe Ganot, E. Atkinson (1886)
"phosphorescence by mechanical effects, such as friction, percussion, cleavage,
&c.; for example, when two crystals of quartz are rubbed against each other ..."
3. The Journal of Foreign Medical Science and Literature edited by Samuel Emlen (1812)
"THE class of natural philosophy and chemistry offered a prize for the examination
of the circumstances and causes of phosphorescence in different bodies, ..."
4. Elementary Treatise on Physics, Experimental and Applied, for the Use of by Adolphe Ganot (1893)
"The various sources of light are the sun, the stars, heat, chemical combination,
phosphorescence, electricity, and meteoric phenomena. ..."
5. Elementary Treatise on Physics Experimental and Applied by Adolphe Ganot (1879)
"-626] phosphorescence: its Sources. Fig. 516 shows how the image of the back of
... phosphorescence : its sources.—phosphorescence is the property which a ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"It appears that this phosphorescence is partly due to the presence of minute,
but definite, proportions of foreign substances. ..."
7. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1919)
"The form of the curve of decay is that characteristic of all substances of
persistent phosphorescence thus far determined. ..."
8. Radiation, Light and Illumination: A Series of Engineering Lectures by Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1909)
"The persistence of the luminescence after the power supply has stopped, as
phosphorescence, is very short, except with a few substances, where it lasts for ..."
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