phosphorescence
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Abiotic minerals also emit their own light, called phosphorescence.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2022
I’m staring down, where dolphins are magically lit by phosphorescence.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 4, 2018
He quotes the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, who wrote that “Havana has the yellow of Cadiz, the pink of Seville turning carmine and the green of Granada, with the slight phosphorescence of fish.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2017
In your death you would not witness a stomach glowing with phosphorescence; your skin would not turn white; you would not find a coconut; you would not be encased and warm, womb-like.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2012
They came in a pack and he could only see the lines in the water that their fins made and their phosphorescence as they threw themselves on the fish.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
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