phosphoresce

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He found that many organisms phosphoresce under ultraviolet light, so he created dramatic Technicolor images of the teeming biodiversity on the forest floor.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2023

It is very slowly released, but the ceramic can be induced to phosphoresce by heating—a process called “thermoluminescence.”

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

While the rays given out by radium cannot, of course, be seen by the unaided eye, the effects of these rays upon certain substances, which they cause to phosphoresce, are strikingly shown.

From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Williams, Henry Smith

Here are mines of native Darkness and Human Stupidity, capable of being made to phosphoresce and effervesce,—are there not, your Majesty?

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Carlyle, Thomas

The portions shielded by the cross, not being tired by being made to phosphoresce for a long time, respond more vigorously to the stimulus than those portions which have not been protected.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 8 "Conduction, Electric" by Various