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What does luminesce mean?

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  1. (intransitive) To give off light, including in the invisible electromagnetic radiation frequencies, or become luminescent.
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The light is often under the fish's nervous control, and after death the ability to luminesce disappears rapidly.
He found that phosphors luminesce brightly in the invisible region beyond violet and thus discovered ultraviolet radiation.
She does not recognize the pattern of bars that luminesce on the gel until she has stared at it for a full minute.
In the case of some of these oxidizers pyrogallol will luminesce in dilute concentrations but not in strong.
Also, dilute pyrogallol will luminesce with a dilute solution of oxidizer but not with a concentrated solution of oxidizer.
On the other hand, a great many forms are able to luminesce quite independently of previous illumination.

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