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the universe's slow-release glow, hoarding light by day to spend it all night
means The property of a substance to keep glowing softly for a while after the light hitting it has been switched off — a delayed, lingering luminescence, unlike the instant flash of fluorescence.
from Built from Greek 'phōsphoros,' the 'light-bearer' — 'phōs' (light) plus 'pherein' (to carry) — the same name the Greeks gave the morning star, Venus. The element phosphorus borrowed that name in the 17th century because it glowed eerily in the dark, and 'phosphorescence' followed as the word for that very glow, with the noun-ending '-escence' marking it as an ongoing state of becoming light.
- slow electrons
- trapped energy leaks out for minutes or hours
- vs fluorescence
- that one quits the instant light stops
- named for venus
- phosphorus means light-bearer, the morning star
- glowing rocks
- some minerals shine in the dark after sunlight
- old matchsticks
- white phosphorus glows by quietly oxidizing in air
firefly bioluminescence — photinus pyralis beetles produce continuous glow from luciferin oxidation in abdomens
deep sea anglerfish lure — melanocetus johnsonii uses bacterial symbiosis to glow at 1000m depths in atlantic
dinoflagellate bioluminescence — lingulodinium polyedrum creates blue waves along california coast when disturbed