fluoresce
/flʊəˈrɛs
/ /flɔːˈrɛs/verb [no object]
Shine or glow brightly due to fluorescence: the molecules fluoresce when excited by ultraviolet radiation...
- QDs luminesce rather than fluoresce; they are brighter and more stable than organic fluorphores; and they have narrower emission peaks.
- Existing imaging techniques use natural molecules that fluoresce, such as organic dyes and proteins that are found in jellyfish and fireflies.
- The crystals fluoresce and phosphoresce a weak pale yellowish-green in ultraviolet radiation.
Origin
Late 19th century: back-formation from fluorescence.
Rhymes
- circularity
- circularization
- circularize
- circularly
- circular polarization
- circular saw
- circulate
- circulating library
- circulating medium
- circulation
- circulative
- circulator
- circulatory
- circulatory system
- circum-
- circumambience
- circumambient
- circumambulate
- circumambulation
- circumambulatory
- circumcircle
- circumcise
- circumciser
- circumcision
- circumference