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		luminescencelu‧mi‧nes‧cence /ˌluːməˈnesəns/ noun [uncountable] technical or literary    - As soon as a leaf dries, it begins to dull, lacking the luminescence that one full of juices has.
 - First it lost its transparency, and became suffused with a pale, milky luminescence.
 - In fact, optically stimulated luminescence tests and carbon 14 dating have proven their great age: they are almost certainly Neolithic.
 - In geological materials, luminescence is commonly controlled by the balance of activator and quencher centres.
 - Increasing beam energy beyond this level actually produces a decrease in luminescence intensity; this is the inhibition phase.
 - It would be most unwise at present to rely solely on luminescence interpretations of geological phenomena.
 - One category of luminescence, however, has a plain and unmistakable purpose.
 - The golden crown of a sugar maple tinged with orange can startle you with its luminescence.
 
    a soft shining light:   The moonlight gave everything a strange luminescence.—luminescent adjective  |