fluoresce
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of fluoresce
First recorded in 1870–75; back formation from fluorescence
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The 34-year-old is on a one-man mission to shine his UV light on what he calls a "magic world" in which plants and animals fluoresce to communicate.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2024
When the ions regain their electrons, they fluoresce.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 8, 2024
Here, the researchers utilized red and green fluorescent emitting particles; one droplet contained particles that fluoresce red under ultraviolet light irradiation, while the other contained particles that fluoresce green.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2023
According to a paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science this month, lions, polar bears, scaly-tailed possums and American pikas also fluoresce.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
"Well, you know radium rays will make a diamond fluoresce in the dark."
From The War Terror by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
The team combined five coumarin-based molecular probes, each of which fluoresced to a different degree when it encountered the amyloids, into a sensor array.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 2024
Low-energy light gave the motor just enough power to rotate, whereas higher-energy light overexcited it, leading it to dispose of excess energy by emitting photons: it fluoresced.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 30, 2022
When she returned before dawn, equipped with an ultraviolet flashlight under which the powder fluoresced, small constellations of footprints surrounded each tray and trailed off into the darkness.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2022
They fluoresced into glowing ingots: red, blue, yellow, violet.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 15, 2014
The stream of high-speed electrons impinging upon the energy beam fluoresced into ultra-spicules of intense light.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
This approach, known as "spatial multiplexing," allows researchers to distinguish signals for different molecules even though they may all be fluorescing the same color.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023
A fluorescing red molecule indicated the gene was active.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 24, 2023
The group differentiated the hESCs into neuronal precursors, then sorted the fluorescing cells from the rest of the population.
From Nature ● May 25, 2020
One showed me what the TB bacteria look like through his microscope: tiny, bright fluorescing stripes.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2016
He felt aglow, like his blood was fluorescing.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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