incandescence

How To Use incandescence In A Sentence

• And when he sometimes thinks he has found the right idea, he perceives that a drop of indescribable incandescence has fallen into the world, with a glow that makes the whole earth look different.
• Incandescence by the way means a high degree of emotion, intensity and brilliance.
• And where they mingled, where they crossed, flamed out suddenly immense rayless orbs; palpitant for an instant, then dissolving in spiralling, feathery spray of pallid emerald incandescences. The Metal Monster
• Then, without warning, a blinding bolt of lightning struck down into the pit, lighting the black depths in a bright flash of incandescence. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
• She straightened — her arms swept out and the writhing vine, with its tendrilled heads of ruby bloom, five flames of misty incandescence, leaped into the faces of the soldiers now close upon us. The Moon Pool
• For not only do all the radioactive substances give off particles of helium gas positively electrified, but _all bodies, no matter what their composition_, can by suitable treatment, such as exposing them to ultra-violet light, or raising them to incandescence, be made to _give off electrons_ or negatively charged particles, and _these electrons are always the same no matter from what kind of substance they come_. Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation
• The salt air smothers the coastal lights, but the mast, the shipped oars, ignite with the corposant, and all through the water a green incandescence, and often at night the coastline is dark, obscured by the luminous reef by the Phoenix of Habbakuk, low in the canceling west, and the wind and the water are borrowed and inward as light. The Reign of Istar
• 'I'll wear something from Hepworth's Mr Normal Collection and just let my natural incandescence shine through. MR STARLIGHT
• It makes me hot with impotent, sweary incandescence. Times, Sunday Times
• The most important factors determining the heating of a filament to incandescence are thermal mass and electrical resistance of the filament.