fluorescence
fluorescence is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 33 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.That property which some transparent bodies have of producing at their surface, or within their substance, light different in color from the mass of the material, as when green crystals of fluor spar afford blue reflections. It is due not to the difference in the color of a distinct surface layer, but to the power which the substance has of modifying the light incident upon it. The light emitted by fluorescent substances is in general of lower refrangibility than the incident light. Stockes.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- clarity
- clear
- crystal
- crystalline
- diaphaneity
- diaphanous
- glass
- glassy
- hyaline
- hyaloid
- light
- limpid
- limpidity
- lucid
- lucidity
- lymph
- medium
- pellucid
- pellucidity
- relucent
- serene
- tralucent
- translucence
- translucency
- translucent
- transmit
- transparence
- transparency
- transparent
- transpicuous
- vitreous
- vitrite
- water
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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