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Definition of Nonluminous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonluminous
Literary usage of Nonluminous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"... the remainder of the carbon being distributed through the metal in the form
of finely divided graphite. part of a nonluminous Bunsen flame on ordinary ..."
2. An Elementary Manual of Chemistry by William Ripley Nichols, William B. Lindsay, Frank Humphreys Storer (1894)
"But when a solid body, such as the platinum wire or the piece of lime of § 43,
is placed in this nonluminous hydrogen flame, intense light is radiated from ..."
3. A Laboratory Manual of General Chemistry by William Jay Hale (1917)
"Study the structure of the nonluminous flame. By use of a platinum wire determine
which regions are relatively hotter and which regions cooler. ..."
4. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"Actually, the rays from the far portion of the infra-red spectrum, which are
produced by these nonluminous or "black body" radiators, penetrate in ..."
5. The Elements of Physics by Silas Ellsworth Coleman (1906)
"Luminous and nonluminous Radiation. —All known bodies are a constant source of
radiant ... With few exceptions, bodies emit only nonluminous radiation (the ..."
6. Optics by Benjamin Crowell (2000)
"How we see nonluminous objects Not all the light energy that hits an object is
transformed into heat. Some is reflected, and this leads us to the question ..."
7. Practical physics by Robert Andrews Millikan, Henry Gordon Gale, Willard R. Pyle (1922)
"Visibility of nonluminous bodies. Everyone is familiar with the fact that ...
The above experiment shows how such nonluminous, diffusing bodies become ..."
8. First Workshop on Grand Unification: New England Center, University of New by Paul H. Frampton, Sheldon L. Glashow, Asim Yildiz (1980)
"On increasing scales from galaxies to pairs and groups of galaxies to large
clusters of galaxies, sore and more of the mass is nonluminous. ..."
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