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flourescence

flourescence is the misspelling of fluorescence.

Meaning of fluorescence

Noun

fluorescence (countable and uncountable, plural fluorescences)

  1. The emission of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) by a material when stimulated by the absorption of radiation or of a subatomic particle.
    • A multi-institution US research team has combined some creative chemistry, fluorescence microscopy and laser-driven microballistics to gain a clearer view of just what happens in a high-strain-rate impact, and to tease out the relative contribution of different kinds of energy dissipation within...2024 October 7, Stewart Wills, “A Deeper View of High-Speed Impacts”, in Optics & Photonics News
  2. The light so emitted.

Questions about flourescence

What is flourescence the misspelling of?
Flourescence is the misspelling of fluorescence.

Words near flourescence in the dictionary

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  3. flour-delice
  4. flour-monger
  5. floured
  6. flourescence
  7. flourescent
  8. flourier
  9. flouriest
  10. flourily
  11. flourine

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