Fluorescence

(idea) by Segnbora-t Fri Apr 07 2000 at 4:03:53
Fluorescence usually means that some object such as a gemstone will change color under fluorescent light or ultraviolet light. Fluorite and calcite do this.
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(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:42:42

Flu`o*res"cence (?), n. [From Fluor.] (Opt.)

That property which some transparent bodies have of producing at their surface, or within their substance, light different in color from the mass of the material, as when green crystals of fluor spar afford blue reflections. It is due not to the difference in the color of a distinct surface layer, but to the power which the substance has of modifying the light incident upon it. The light emitted by fluorescent substances is in general of lower refrangibility than the incident light. Stockes.

 

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Flu`o*res"cence (?), n.

A property possessed by fluor spar, uranium glass, sulphide of calcium, and many other substances, of glowing without appreciable rise of temperature when exposed to light or to ultra-violet rays, cathode rays, X rays, etc.

 

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