phosphorescence

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The music stops, the lights return to the usual sickly phosphorescence, and the administrator pulls his usual demeanor back to formality as everyone recovers from their shock.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2025

In general, phosphorescence signals are much longer-lasting than their fluorescent counterparts, allowing the Biofinder to distinguish between them.

From Scientific American • Jul. 27, 2022

“Literature shines with its maximum phosphorescence when it is about to die,” Roland Barthes wrote.

From Washington Post • Jul. 3, 2019

I’m staring down, where dolphins are magically lit by phosphorescence.

From The Guardian • Nov. 4, 2018

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