fluorescence
5
6.7
- noun
- /flɔˈrɛsəns/
- Specialized
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fluorescencia
- The artist used special paints that displayed a bright fluorescence when exposed to black light.
The X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, that's the next step.
- The X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, that's the next step.
- So my electronic structure should be destroyed much faster than my fluorescence decay occurs.
- These have complex for compact fluorescence, and they also have a metallic inner wall.
- You can also take pictures of particularly if you use the fluorescence techniques, you will use lighting luminol.
- The thing is with these is that the thing with compact fluorescence, and they'll get back into the pros and cons with is that the pros of using compact fluorescence is that they're cheap.
Examples
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The NIST observations of the fluorescence of rubidium in a one-dimensional molasses are probably the simplest to interpret.
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Chlorophyll fluorescence: In vivo chlorophyll fluorescence was measured using a Handy-PEA chlorophyll fluorometer (Hansatech Instruments).
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Well, we're gonna do it until we finish... and then we're gonna move on to the fluorescence work.
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So how am I going to get fluorescence that looks bound?
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You tune it to a fluorescence line and you stop.
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Gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence were analyzed on a typical sunny day.
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Yes, it was found out by X-ray fluorescence that the robe was in Prussian blue.
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See rare gems as well as minerals with unusual properties such as vivid colors, fluorescence, magnetism, and radioactivity.
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Images of p65 cellular distribution were captured with a fluorescence microscope (Olympus, Tokyo, Japan).
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Tissue sections probed with an orange fluorescence-labelled DNA probe for the X-chromosome sequence and green for the Y-chromosome sequence.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
2
7.0
Light that a material gives off without heat
Light a material gives out after it takes in light
Compounds
- Specialized
A way to use light to see glowing parts of tiny samples like cells
How Long
- Specialized
1
9.9
- Specialized
5
6.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
fluorescence = fluoresce (transparent) = fluoresc + ence
Formed by a standard noun-forming suffix added to the verb 'fluoresce', so the meaning (the process/state of fluorescing) is directly predictable from the base.
Etymology
Fluorescence comes from the root fluor-, linked to the glowing mineral fluorite and to the idea 'to flow' that you see in fluid, plus the ending -escence, meaning 'becoming'. So think of fluorite 'glowing' under a blacklight: fluorescence is the light a material 'gives off' after it 'takes in' light.