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Definition of Phosphoresces
1. phosphoresce [v] - See also: phosphoresce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phosphoresces
Literary usage of Phosphoresces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"When reduced to powder, it phosphoresces with a bluish light. Before the blow-pipe,
it first becomes black, then white, and afterwards ..."
2. A Physical Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Edward Henry Gordon (1891)
"When luminous sulphide of calcium, prepared according to Mr. Ed. Becquerel's
description, is exposed even to candle-light, it phosphoresces for hours with a ..."
3. A Physical treatise on eletricity and magnetism v. 2 by James Edward Henry Gordon (1880)
"different glass: one is uranium glass (a), which phosphoresces of a dark green
... which phosphoresces of a blue colour; and the third (c) is soft German ..."
4. School Electricity by James Edward Henry Gordon (1886)
"... another is English glass (6), which phosphoresces of a blue colour ; and the
third (c) is soft German glass—of which most of the apparatus used in the ..."
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