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Fluorescent substance
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phosphor
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A phosphor , most generally, is a substance that exhibits the phenomenon of luminescence . Somewhat confusingly, this includes both phosphorescent materials, which show a slow decay in brightness (> 1 ms), and fluorescent materials, where the emission decay ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Phosphor \Phos"phor\, n. [Cf. G. phosphor. See Phosphorus .] Phosphorus. [Obs.] --Addison. The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; Lucifer. [Poetic] --Pope. Tennyson.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context chemistry English) Any of various compounds of transition metals or of rare earths that exhibits phosphorescence.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"morning star," 1630s, from Latin phosphorus "the morning star" (see phosphorus ). Meaning "anything phosphorescent" is from 1705.
Usage examples of phosphor.
Phosphor have been our cats for the last ten years: Lucifer, entirely black, Phosphor, as yellow as saffron, a real golden fleece.
But Phosphor purrs like a windmill, like an electric car, like a tea-kettle, like a whole boiled dinner.
But although so fierce a fighter, so inhospitable to every other cat, Phosphor is the most affectionate little soul.
They went through and out into the waste and slums beyond the domes, heading out until there were only the few phosphor bulbs to guide their way.
Sheila stood outlined in the doorway against the dim glow of a phosphor bulb.
For the purpose of this cloth, a phosphor has been devised which will always radiate exactly as much light as falls on it.
The memory of his dead wife chases Fenner, a single phosphor in the Festival of Light, burning with her own death.
Her brown eyes were so bright they could be lit with the same phosphor as the tree stumps on Walkeswar Drive.
Underlit by the phosphor pallor of the runes that channeled the thrust ef the lane tides, he slapped out a persistent, smoldering spark still raising smoke from his sleeve cuff.
Hope raised a flame of fierce expectation, as in response to relentless finesse his drawn rune lit to hazed phosphor, then drifted above the basin.
Some of these Forteans were friends of Miss Phosphor McCabe, and others of them were unknown to her.
Miss Phosphor McCabe has called again and says that she has friends who know where the well is and what to do about it.
The friends of Miss Phosphor McCabe were plainly of a Fortean race, but they were not of the Stutzamutza subrace as Dollo had expected.
Yes, Miss Phosphor McCabe did the really stunning photographic article for Heritage Geographical Magazine.
Miss Phosphor McCabe had arrived at some unacceptable conclusions, the editor said.