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
Abiotic minerals also emit their own light, called phosphorescence.
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
Looking out the window I can see it, a glimmer, like the phosphorescence you get in stirred seawater, behind the sky, which is overcast and too low and a dull gray infrared.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Vocabulary lists containing phosphorescence
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