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phosphorescence

Emission of light by certain substances after they have absorbed energy, whether from visible light, other electromagnetic radiation such as ultraviolet rays or X-rays, or cathode rays (a beam of electrons). When the stimulating energy is removed phosphorescence persists for more than 0.1 nanoseconds before ceasing (unlike fluorescence, which stops immediately). See also luminescence.



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Whilst all the landscape was in neutral shade his companion's face, which was the focus of his eyes, rising above the mist stratum, seemed to have a sort of phosphorescence upon it.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
A man floundered near me, in a splutter of phosphorescence.
Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context
While this pallidness was burning aloft, few words were heard from the enchanted crew; who in one thick cluster stood on the forecastle, all their eyes gleaming in that pale phosphorescence, like a far away constellation of stars.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
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