emit light
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They are especially valuable because they emit light in the second near infrared region, which can travel deep into biological tissue.
From Science Daily • May 18, 2026
In privacy mode, the device dims those wide pixels, while the narrow pixels emit light only at your face.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026
A key example is superradiance, a quantum effect in which atoms emit light in perfect synchronization, creating a brightness far greater than the sum of their individual emissions.
From Science Daily • Nov. 3, 2025
Many objects in space, including distant galaxies and planets, emit light on the electromagnetic spectrum.
From BBC • Sep. 18, 2024
Frequently—as in the south European Luciola italica—both sexes of the beetle are provided with wings, and both male and female emit light.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
