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What does evanescent mean?

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The intensity of the evanescent wave created at the bottom of the flow cell decays exponentially with the distance from the slide's surface.
This parallel love story clearly relays the obvious frustration that Noah felt due to his wife's evanescent memory and his tender love for her.
However, this sceptical triumph is evanescent, it vanishes when his attention turns to other facts.
Just as the evanescent electric spark travels up the wire and disappears, we see how transitory our seemingly stable universe may prove to be.
It was evanescent, fading just as quickly as it had appeared, and translucent to begin with.
In photon tunneling, the intensity of evanescent light is reduced when the lasing particle is approached by a non-lasing one.

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