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phosphorescent, a. (n.)|fɒsfəˈrɛsənt|
[f. phosphor-us: see -escent. So in Fr. (Dict. Acad. 1835).]
Having the property of shining in the dark; luminous without combustion or without sensible heat; self-luminous.
1766Da Costa in Phil. Trans. LVI. 39 It detonates with small phosphorescent sparks. 1805–17R. Jameson Char. Min. (ed. 3) 313 Fluor-spar, when heated, becomes phosphorescent, or occasionally exhibits this property after having been exposed to the sun's rays. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xvi. (1859) 421 The sea in our neighbourhood was strongly phosphorescent. 1881Spottiswoode in Nature 13 Oct. 571/1 Certain parts of the interior surface of the tube become luminous with phosphorescent light.
fig.1855I. Taylor Restor. Belief 19 A man sits surrounded with the books of all ages; among these he has passed the best years of his life..the books are phosphorescent in the view of their possessor. 1859Ruskin Arrows of Chace I. 194 Dim, phosphorescent, frightful superstitions.
B. n. A phosphorescent substance.
1863Atkinson tr. Ganot's Physics vii. vii. 465 The best phosphorescents are..diamonds..fluorspar [etc.]. 1889Philos. Mag. Ser. v. XXVIII. 428 All of them fusible at the temperatures at which the phosphorescents are prepared.
Hence phosphoˈrescently adv.
1848Dickens Dombey i, The buttons sparkled phosphorescently in the feeble rays. 1857Chamb. Jrnl. VIII. 308/2 Content with such political and judicial lights as gleam, as it were phosphorescently, from the decayed and rotten caput mortuum of eight centuries ago. |