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luminescence

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[ UK /lˌuːmɪnˈɛsəns/ ]
[ US /ˌɫuməˈnɛsəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. light from nonthermal sources
  2. light not due to incandescence; occurs at low temperatures

How To Use luminescence In A Sentence

  • With transfected cells grown as solid tumors in vivo, the bioluminescence light is emitted shortly after systemic administration of luciferin.
  • It is generated by an enzyme-catalyzed chemoluminescence reaction, wherein the pigment luciferin is oxidised by the enzyme luciferase. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The glow of the firefly, which is due to the oxidation of the molecule luciferin, with the enzyme luciferase acting as a catalyst in the oxidation process and oxygen acting as the electron acceptor, is an example of bioluminescence.
  • Luminescence is rarely more than 1% efficient and thus of comparatively low intensity.
  • We often went to the park for picnics, sitting on the cannon in the sun, marvelling at the dewy luminescence of the bleeding heart begonias in the steamy green light of the conservatory.
  • When the time arrives to bunker down, when the insides are under threat from the outsides, here sit I, ears tweaked to the luminescence within.
  • Scientists testing old occupation sites by thermoluminescence have suggested an Aboriginal presence of up to 60000 years.
  • Prof. Bradley is one of the 1989 co-inventors of conjugated polymer of electroluminescence. Epolitix News
  • Mineralization was studied in core using cathodoluminescence, transmitted and reflected light microscopy and fluid inclusion microthermometry.
  • and an overall luminescence far removed from the pervading gloom she was used to. THE GOSPEL MAKERS
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