illuminant

IPA: ɪɫˈumʌnʌnt

Examples of "illuminant" in Sentences

Fireflies are illuminant in the dark.
As the population grows, the demand for illuminant should grow at least as quickly.
Rockefellers as soon as the sun goes down, no matter what form of illuminant they use.
With a flash of intuition, Bissell had the idea that it could be used as an illuminant.
I had a dream last night it was the illuminant who was stirring all this controversy over the health care bill ........
This new illuminant, they were sure, would be highly competitive with the “coal-oils” that were winning markets in the 1850s.
The group thought that the rock oil could be exploited in far larger quantities and processed into a fluid that could be burned as an illuminant in lamps.
Seeing the rock oil sample at Dartmouth, he conceived, in a flash, that it could be used not as a medicine but as an illuminant—and that it might well assuage the woes of his pocketbook.
What Don said is, I think, perfectly correct when talking about saturation, my point was just that Jim wasn't talking about saturation but about chroma, and not about emmited lights but about reflective surfaces under a given illuminant, so, in my view, Don was correct but beyond the point.
If you have a surface that reflects only in the yellow wavelength, it will seem rather dark for it wastes most of the illuminant, and, by seeming dark, it will have low chroma so you'll end up with that sort of brown or greenish thingy that you can see in Gurney's low chroma yellow, in the post.