phosphorescence

How To Use phosphorescence In A Sentence

• The I.V. stand is dragged along like a broken mast, its medicine bags glowing like ocean phosphorescence; rising from the water, as in a horror movie, a tentacle wields a syringe and a human hand proffers a dripping bottle of pills.
• Sunset faded and the mainland lights fell away, surges of phosphorescence began to show.
• Thus, thought Becquerel, he had extended his discovery of long-lived phosphorescence to metals.
• They sank leaving a trail of phosphorescence in the water.
• We need not expect to find in animal organisms potash, soda, ammonia, and the other common alkalies; but it was established by experiment that the alkaline organic compounds cholin and neurin, which are present in animal tissues, would also serve to bring about the phenomenon of phosphorescence in the substances on which the experiments were made. Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky
• At night, the phosphorescence looks as if all the constellations in the inky sky have fallen into the deep.
• I stared silently out the window as an eerie aura of phosphorescence crowned the long rows of waves crashing onto the beach under the moonlight.
• Such flexibility has been observed by electrical birefringence, electron paramagnetic resonance, fluorescence resonance energy transfer, phosphorescence, and electron microscopy.
• It is called phosphorescence," replied the doctor, leaning over the bulwarks, and looking down at the fiery serpent that seemed as if it clung to the ship's rudder. The Red Eric
• A sparkling phosphorescence blossomed out through the water from where they hit the water, and the pool was lit with a strange iridescence.