How To Use Phosphorescence In A Sentence
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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.
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Sunset faded and the mainland lights fell away, surges of phosphorescence began to show.
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Thus, thought Becquerel, he had extended his discovery of long-lived phosphorescence to metals.
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They sank leaving a trail of phosphorescence in the water.
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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
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At night, the phosphorescence looks as if all the constellations in the inky sky have fallen into the deep.
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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.
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Such flexibility has been observed by electrical birefringence, electron paramagnetic resonance, fluorescence resonance energy transfer, phosphorescence, and electron microscopy.
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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
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A sparkling phosphorescence blossomed out through the water from where they hit the water, and the pool was lit with a strange iridescence.
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A fitful phosphorescence, like the glow of deep-sea fishes: blue, cold, charmless.
THE HELLBOUND HEART
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Ancient runic lettering on the wall shone clearly yet legibly, some eerie phosphorescence at work; and the dome… pure, sparkling, it needed no lamp to herald its majesty.
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Thermoluminescence is phosphorescence of a material due to heating.
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In the case of molecules, the emission is called fluorescence if the transition occurs between states of the same spin, and phosphorescence if the transition takes place between states of different spin.
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The light from the firefly is an example of phosphorescence.
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Since that time, phosphorescence has been used to describe substances that shine in the dark without burning.
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I devoured photographs showing the ghostly glow of bacteria on decaying fish: the shimmering phosphorescence of protozoans in tropical seas.
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There are many familiar examples of fluorescence and phosphorescence in our daily lives.
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During phosphorescence measurements the polarizers are removed.
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True, he had beheld shooting stars (this in reply to Bassett's contention); but likewise had he beheld the phosphorescence of fungoid growths and rotten meat and fireflies on dark nights, and the flames of wood - fires and of blazing candle-nuts; yet what were flame and blaze and glow when they had flamed and blazed and glowed?
THE RED ONE
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It was peaceful: the waves slapping against the hull, the ocean aglow with cold, blue phosphorescence - almost a net of glittering cyan and light.
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At times the sea was glittering with phosphorescence, and when dolphins appeared around Pindar at that time, they left silver streaks in the water like Walt Disney characters.
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There were lanterns hanging in the branches, she saw, giving off a sickly phosphorescence.
EVERVILLE
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Suppose that in an exhausted bulb, under the molecular impact, the surface of a piece of metal or other conductor is rendered strongly luminous, but at the same time it is found that it remains comparatively cool, would not this luminosity be called phosphorescence?
Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency
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One piece of ore that missed the smelter contained some secondary willemite with a very long phosphorescence.
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Flanking and behind us marched the giant batrachians, fivescore of them at least, black scale and crimson scale lus-trous and gleaming in the rosaceous radiance; saucer eyes shining circles of phosphorescence green, purple, red; spurs clicking as they crouched along with a gait at once gro-tesque and formidable.
The Moon Pool
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I am inclined to consider that the phosphorescence is the result of organic particles, by which process (one is tempted almost to call it a kind of respiration) the ocean becomes purified.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure
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In this study, the consequences of finite excitation flash duration are analyzed using computer simulations, and a method for the recovery of phosphorescence decay times from complex photometric signals is presented.
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As the outer doors slid shut, the blue light of phosphorescence brightened in the cavern.
A TIME OF WAR
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The source of other light in the cavern appeared to Kirk to be coming from irregular funguslike splotches of glowing yellow and green phosphorescence on the cavern’s rocky surfaces.
Captain’s Peril
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Like Helio, Garun held out his hands, and a phosphorescence appeared between them.
WATER BOOK ONE: ASCENSION
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Europa achieves ecstatic permanence in phosphorescence, which originates only due to light from another source, just as myth propagates itself: by tapping into innate human eros.
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It was the yellow Gulf weed that had made so much phosphorescence in the night.
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Another boat chugged past and at that moment our world exploded in hissing silvery blue, the sea whisking and shining in a turmoil of a bustle of fish and phosphorescence, like coins gleaming in a dark, still pool.
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The so-called phosphorescence of most inorganic bodies is one of a totally different nature from that exhibited in organic forms.
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky
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A large cavern, lit only by the faintest glimmer of phosphorescence, was exposed, a vast lake in the centre.
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= -- While the luminosity possessed by certain fungi cannot be said to be of distinct utility, their phosphorescence is a noteworthy phenomenon.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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We are cautioned against confusing bioluminescence with fluorescence and phosphorescence.
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We journeyed out to the Lions Gate Bridge; on the way back, the ocean's phosphorescence electrified our strokes.
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It was just like Goa - picturesque, abounded in clean beaches, where, because of phosphorescence, waves glow on a full moon night, and provided a sense of tranquillity.
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A large cavern, lit only by the faintest glimmer of phosphorescence was exposed, a vast lake in the centre.
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He would watch for the telltale disturbance of phosphorescence in the water which meant the fish were rising on the ebb tide.
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This was similar to the flame of a big blue slow moving torch, that had a steady slight wind blowing on it, that made the leading edge wobble and warp in a slow fluttering motion, with the changing gun-blue phosphorescence.
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Flanking and behind us marched the giant batrachians, fivescore of them at least, black scale and crimson scale lustrous and gleaming in the rosaceous radiance; saucer eyes shining circles of phosphorescence green, purple, red; spurs clicking as they crouched along with a gait at once grotesque and formidable.
The Moon Pool
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Observing that the water charged with gelatinous particles is in an impure state, and that the luminous appearance in all common cases is produced by the agitation of the fluid in contact with the atmosphere, I am inclined to consider that the phosphorescence is the result of the decomposition of the organic particles, by which process (one is tempted almost to call it a kind of respiration) the ocean becomes purified.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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He saw the phosphorescence of the Gulf weed in the water.
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Now only the stars have been netted in the casuarinas and the surf snarls with eerie phosphorescence as if glowing with spectral fires.
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The lighting uses silhouettes and phosphorescence that give figures and flying coats a garish glow, and none more memorably than the small witch-like figure suspended on high in the second half before she falls and flashes to the ground.
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A beautiful hole, but it was still a hole when you stripped away all the velvet and phosphorescence.
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The place they flew through was eerie, lit only by lightning and the faint phosphorescence of the clouds themselves which both above and below formed a curving tunnel.
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The phosphorescence screen is usually a plate covered with some platino-cyanide and mounted in the end of a box of convenient size, the opposite end of which is so shaped that it fits the contour of the face, shutting out the light and allowing the eyes of the observer to focalize on the screen at the end.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences
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The high degree of iodine substitution in this aromatic molecule facilitates intersystem crossing, and rose bengal exhibits significant phosphorescence.
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The water about them glowed with a strange green phosphorescence.
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This event is often referred to as phosphorescence, because when it was first studied, the light was mistakenly assumed to be caused by phosphorus.
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