Word of the Day:
luminesce
What It Means
To give off light, including in the invisible electromagnetic radiation frequencies, or become luminescent.
Phosphorus will only begin to luminesce at a certain small pressure of oxygen.
Did You Know?
Back-formation from luminescent.
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