thermoluminescencen.
Luminescence resulting from exposure to high temperature; spec. as used as a means of dating ancient pottery and other material.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > heat > transmission of heat > [noun] > becoming luminous
calorescence1863
calcescence1881
thermoluminescence1897
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > intensity of light, luminosity > [noun] > luminescence > produced by heat or friction
incandescence1794
calescence1846
calorescence1863
incandescency1882
triboluminescence1889
thermoluminescence1897
tribothermoluminescence1930
1897 J. J. Thomson in Smithsonian Rep. (1898) 158 The phenomenon called by its discoverer, Prof. E. Wiedemann, thermoluminescence.
1898 W. Crookes Addr. Brit. Assoc. 22 Fluor-spar, which by prolonged heating has lost its power of luminescing when re-heated, regains the power of thermo-luminescence when exposed to Röntgen rays.
1906 J. B. Burke Orig. Life xiii. 241 Many substances, when warmed, possess the power of radiating energy which they had previously stored up in some other way: a phenomenon which is known as Thermoluminescence.
1967 New Scientist 26 Oct. 206/3 Proposals for thermo~luminescence on the Moon are not new.
1968 New Scientist 21 Mar. 644/1 Methods of using the natural thermoluminescence of minerals in fired ceramics to find out when they were made have been investigated..for several years.
1968 Times 14 Oct. 8/1 Archaeological fakes, some so convincing that they have deceived experts, are being exposed by a new scientific technique developed for dating ancient pottery. The results of one test, known as thermoluminescence dating, are to be used in a court case in America.
1977 G. Clark World Prehist. (ed. 3) p. xx The degree of thermoluminescence given out by a sample of pottery or stone under heat is proportional to the amount of radiation accumulated since the sample was last fired.
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