phosphoresce
IPA: fˈɑsfɝˈɛs
verb
- To exhibit phosphorescence
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Examples of "phosphoresce" in Sentences
- He had inherited from his father a supply of uranium salts, which phosphoresce on exposure to light.
- I took a screen made of zincblende, which will phosphoresce when the emanations of radium fall upon it.
- But from numerous experiments I find that bodies will phosphoresce in actual contact with the negative pole.
- Some online research revealed that decaying wood can phosphoresce due to the presence of a fungus known as Agaricus melleus.
- But on some nights the sea would phosphoresce, he remembered, you dipped your hand into the waves that lapped against your boat and lifted it with fire streaming off ....
- If then we prepare densely inseminated plates of these two bacteria in gelatine food-medium to which starch is added as the only carbohydrate, the bacteria grow but do not phosphoresce.
- They are both readily soluble in acids, with effervescence, and infusible but crumble to powder before the blowpipe, or at least become brittle; when rubbed in mass with a piece of iron, they phosphoresce with a yellow light; specific gravity,
- Very many bodies, such as ruby, diamond, emerald, alumina, yttria, samaria, and a large class of earthy oxides and sulphides, phosphoresce in vacuum tubes when placed in the path of the stream of electrified molecules proceeding from the negative pole.
- If the exhaustion is further pushed, then, at the point where the surface of the negative pole ceases to be luminous, the material on the positive pole, B, commences to phosphoresce, increasing in intensity until the tube refuses to conduct, its greatest brilliancy being just short of this degree of exhaustion.
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