What is "fluoresce"

Usage examples of "fluoresce".

She preferred the faster and more stable ethidium bromide, even though you needed an ultraviolet trans illuminator to make it fluoresce.

The way it fluoresced showed that the palmette border was original, but the Scythian archers had been added using a different glaze or paint.

Coolant fluid vented out of a tear in the casing, hidden somewhere in the deep shadows on the side away from the sun, the fountain fluorescing grey-blue as it jetted out from behind the ship.

They could see corals fluorescing a dozen yards away, like stars or nebulae in the deeps of space.

An instant later, the trouble spot fluoresced orange, pointing to a miscon-nected microfilament, and she swore again as she reached to correct it.

A sheet of paper coated with barium platinocyanide was fluorescing, even though it was shut off from the tube.

A holomenu fluoresced weakly overhead, and a muted Lapinee playlist seeped into the air from speakers hung on the structure.

X-ray machine which fluoresces each diamond and the computer picks it up and reports its size and exact position on the table.

Radiator panels stacked in kilometre-high cones stood next to circular fan towers of faint-glowing fins, minarets of spiralling glass tubes with hot gases rushing through them competed for root space with encrustations of black pillars like a spiky crystal growth, whose sheer ends fluoresced coral pink.

It was simply a blending of certain of those chemical substances which fluoresce, or glow, when exposed to ultra-violet light - a property not especially remarkable, being shared by a substance as common as vaseline.

What was ostensibly its nightside fluoresced near the bottom end of the visible spectrum, producing a weary emberlike glow which fluctuated in continental-sized patterns as the dense turbulent clouds raged in never ending cyclones.

And sometimes, on clouded nights when there wasn't even much starshine to guide them, went out scogger-hunting in the velvet dark (stumbling over bushes and hillocks, with ultraviolet lights that made the grubs' epicuticles fluoresce so they looked like neon-lit cockroaches in the night) and broiled their catch for breakfast.

An orange glow from the flames fluoresced dimly on one side of the spaceplane.

Two long engine nacelles were affixed to the stern, transparent tubes filled with a heavy opaque gas which fluoresced its way through the spectrum in a three-minute cycle.

Water droplets spraying out of the overhead nozzles fluoresced violet, and vaporized.