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Definition of Luminesce
1. Verb. Be or become luminescent; exhibit luminescence.
Definition of Luminesce
1. Verb. To give off light, including in the invisible electromagnetic radiation frequencies, or become luminescent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Luminesce
1. [v -NESCED, -NESCING, -NESCES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Luminesce
Literary usage of Luminesce
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nature of Animal Light by Edmund Newton Harvey (1920)
"Phosphorus will only begin to luminesce at a certain small pressure of oxygen.
This "minimum luminescence pressure" of oxygen is very low, ..."
2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1904)
"The following luminesce more feebly (in some cases much more feebly) :—Phenyl-
... Benzene derivatives whose vapours do not luminesce in the Tesla ..."
3. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1912)
"Agar cultures appear to grow about as well as gelatin cultures but luminesce
weakly or not at all, even in the presence of the proper amount of mineral ..."
4. Principles of Biochemistry for Students of Medicine, Agriculture and Related by Thorburn Brailsford Robertson (1920)
"Pyrogallol, for example, will luminesce when treated with plant Peroxidases or
with Hemoglobin or by certain salts such as potassium permanganate and ..."
5. A Text-book of Physical Chemistry, Theory and Practice by Arthur Woolsey Ewell (1909)
"luminesce, and emit its "line" spectrum. Vapors of iodine luminesce where there
are great changes of temperature or pressure, and give the characteristic ..."
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