单词 | phosphorize |
释义 | phosphorizev. 1. transitive. To make phosphorescent; to cause to phosphoresce. Also intransitive: to phosphoresce. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > light emitted under particular conditions > [verb (transitive)] > make phosphorescent phosphorize1795 phosphorate1836 the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > phosphorus > [verb (transitive)] phosphorize1795 phosphorate1836 1795 W. Nicholson Dict. Chem. I. 255 It [sc. chrysolite] phosphorises in the instant it melts, like the basis of alum and gypseous spar. 1837 New Monthly Mag. 49 59 He did not, like Sterne, bid the ‘lights of science’ phosphorize corruption. 1865 Catholic World Sept. 772/2 Rare kinds of clorophane shine in a dark room from the mere warmth of the hand; and other substances are phosphorized by the slightest friction. 1996 T. Whissen tr. E. Aroneanu Inside Concentration Camps vii. 81 A ‘fluorescent microscope’..that operated on the principle that a living cell could phosphorize whereas a dead one could not. 2. transitive. Chemistry. To combine or impregnate with phosphorus or its compounds. Cf. dephosphorize v. ΚΠ 1927 Biochem. Jrnl. 21 272 Lactalbumin, serum globulin and caseinogen were ‘phosphorised’..and the phosphorised products precipitated by acetic acid. Derivatives ˈphosphorizing adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > light emitted under particular conditions > [noun] > phosphorescence > phosphorescent substance or organism > making something phosphorescent phosphorizing1881 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > intensity of light, luminosity > [noun] > phosphorescence > causing phosphorizing1881 1881 Proc. Royal Soc. 32 390 If the phosphorising radiation consists of a recurring series of discrete discharges. 1895 Daily News 21 Jan. 2/3 Experiments to prove the phosphorising of non-phosphorescent materials by immersion in liquid air at low temperature were made in the dark. 1939 A. L. Winton & K. B. Winton Struct. & Composition Foods IV. iv. 517 Adenine-nucleotide, the phosphorizing coenzyme of Lohmann and Ostern. 1994 Wear 173 51 Results of tribological tests on Armco iron after gaseous phosphorizing treatment are presented. 2000 tr. A. Volohonsky in G. Janacek Sight & Sound Entwined i. 14 The smoke of our phosphorizing bones. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1795 |
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