Thesaurus / luminosity
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Maybe—maybe—some people might have seen a fluorescent luminosity in the original pigments.
HOW THESE ROTHKOS WERE RESTORED WITHOUT TOUCHING THE CANVASADAM ROGERSMAY 30, 2021THE DAILY BEASTI wanted to write fiction, which was what Barry was reading, and he had wrapped me in sentences like cords of luminosity.
REMEMBERING MY FRIEND BARRY LOPEZBOB SHACOCHISJANUARY 5, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEThe first rung consists of “standard candle” stars in and around our own galaxy that have well-defined luminosities, and which are close enough to exhibit parallax — the only sure way to tell how far away things are without traveling there.
ASTRONOMERS GET THEIR WISH, AND A COSMIC CRISIS GETS WORSENATALIE WOLCHOVERDECEMBER 17, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINEIt basically breaks our understanding of the luminosities and brightnesses that kilonovae are supposed to have.
ASTRONOMERS SPOTTED COLLIDING NEUTRON STARS THAT MAY HAVE FORMED A MAGNETARLISA GROSSMANDECEMBER 1, 2020SCIENCE NEWSOur fellows were being hard beset to hold on to what they had won; there, where the horizon stood out with spectral luminosity.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONThe night grows dark, the wind rises and is cold, and the tide changes; so does the luminosity of the sea.
YOUNG FOLKS' LIBRARY, VOLUME XI (OF 20)VARIOUSOther naturalists who have had opportunities of seeing the insect in its native regions strongly deny its luminosity.
THE ROMANCE OF NATURAL HISTORY, SECOND SERIESPHILIP HENRY GOSSEThe ideal method looks to the use of a very rich gas, and the burning of it with a maximum of luminosity.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, NO. 586, MARCH 26, 1887VARIOUSRecently an extraordinary instance of luminosity was recorded as occurring in our own country.
FUNGI: THEIR NATURE AND USESMORDECAI CUBITT COOKEAlthough the examples already cited are those of species of Agaric, luminosity is not by any means wholly confined to that genus.
FUNGI: THEIR NATURE AND USESMORDECAI CUBITT COOKESYNONYM OF THE DAY
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WORDS RELATED TO LUMINOSITY
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