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Fluorescent   /flˌʊrˈɛsənt/  /flˌɔrˈɛsənt/   Listen
Fluorescent

adjective
1.
Emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source.
2.
Brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light.
noun
1.
A lighting fixture that uses a fluorescent lamp.  Synonym: fluorescent fixture.



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"Fluorescent" Quotes from Famous Books



... a vast room, fluorescent-lit, a cavern filled with equipment and machinery, endless mounds of material piled in row after row. Among the stacks, leadys were working silently, ...
— The Defenders • Philip K. Dick
... had far-reaching consequences. It drew attention to the fluorescence of minerals placed in the cathode tube; this inspired Becquerel to inquire whether naturally fluorescent substances gave off anything like X-rays, and eventually - yet again by accident - he came upon certain uranium compounds. These were found to give off a radiation similar to X-rays, and to give it off naturally and all the time. Soon afterwards the Curies succeeded in isolating ...
— Man or Matter • Ernst Lehrs
... BEERBOHM TREE, goliardic, tarantulated and pontostomatous, invested the character of the great financier with a fluorescent charm. ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 7, 1914 • Various


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