What is "luminescent"

Usage examples of "luminescent".

Halting, Father Cesare bowed his head to Kieran, the pink flesh of his head appearing shiny from the luminescent glow of the tallow in the wall sconces.

Lucy starts spraying in wide sweeps over the yard, walking and spraying and the grass glows bluish-green, glowing and fading like an eerie luminescent ocean everywhere the luminol touches.

They sprayed Luminol, a product that glows luminescent in the dark in places where it has interacted with blood.

The summery air and earth seemed to be exulting fantastically in luminescent figures and a thousand tiny wheeling constellations.

Even as Danlo did, they all wore templets around their heads, and these nine hundred luminescent bands cast halos of golden light into the black air.

To generate the fine tuned radiance, the squid hosts acommunity of luminescent bacteria called Vibrio fischeri.

He noticed that some of the painstakingly placed grains of sand and rock and luminescent microfossils had started to shift where the sheets of shell were beginning to warp from the dry air, releasing their tight grip on the sand layer.

When Rathere swam through these luminescent microorganisms, the shockwaves of her passage catalyzed their photochemical reactions, a universe of swirling galaxies ignited by every stroke.

As the abyssal ascension gave rise to this luminescent benthic epiphany, more and more of the crew crowded to the port side to gape.

Six feet five, Alem Gebre always had a smile, his teeth luminescent in a walnut-complected face, his Eritrean heritage evident in the broad forehead and slightly flared nose.

She looks around at the tow truck, at other hydraulic lifts and tables of photography equipment, Mini-Crime scopes, luminescent powders and brushes, trace-evidence vacuums, Tyvek protective clothing, superglue and crime-scene kits that look like big, black tackle boxes.

But in doing so, he runs the risk of ruining any possibility of fuming prints with superglue or looking for them with an alternate light source and luminescent powders or processing them with chemicals such as ninhydrin or diazafluoren.

The corpse is a paradise of luminescent bacteria, anaerobic clostridia, penicilliumall working their own active, grimy little bodies into action, where they oxidize fat, break down protein and carbohydrates.

Somewhere in their wake, a fast trader battled the same storm, and her presenceannounced by the lookout only minutes before the green and strangely luminescent cloud rolled over themgnawed at Kalam, refusing to go away.

Luminescent bacteria, all working their grimy little bodies into action.