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phosphorescent
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What does phosphorescent mean?
adjective
- Having the property of emitting light for a period of time after the source of excitation is taken away, e.g., in electrostatic storage tubes and cathode-ray tubes.
noun
- A phosphorescent substance.
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As I sat watching the cable to-night, large phosphorescent globes kept rolling from it and fading in the black water.
The star hovers over the phosphorescent light cast on the darkness as the spirit hovers over the blackness of matter.
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A light flapped over the scene, as if reflected from phosphorescent wings crossing the sky, and a rumble filled the air.
The sun had set the evening before in a red mist, in the midst of the phosphorescent scintillations of the ocean.
Glancing narrowly into the more distant darkness, he caught occasional glimpses of visages that loomed pallid and ghostly, lit with a phosphorescent glow.