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chlorophanes

chlorophanes is the plural of chlorophane.

Meaning of chlorophane

Noun

chlorophane (countable and uncountable, plural chlorophanes)

  1. A variety of fluorspar, which, when heated, gives a striking emerald-green light.
    • CHLOROPHANE. The Amelia Court House, Va., locality yields a bluegreen fluorescing chlorophane. Kunz and Baskerville qualitatively studied the emission from Chlorophane in 1903. (See also the discussion for Fluorite which is also […]2013, Jack DeMent, Handbook of Fluorescent Gems and Minerals - An Exposition and Catalog of the Fluorescent and Phosphorescent Gems and Minerals, Including the Use of Ultraviolet Light in the Earth...
  2. The yellowish-green pigment in the inner segment of the cones of the retina.

Questions about chlorophanes

What is chlorophanes the plural of?
Chlorophanes is the plural of chlorophane.

Words near chlorophanes in the dictionary

  1. chloropesticide
  2. chloropesticides
  3. chlorophacinone
  4. chlorophaeite
  5. chlorophane
  6. chlorophanes
  7. chlorophenical
  8. chlorophenol
  9. chlorophenols
  10. chlorophenothane
  11. chlorophenoxies

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