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The shotgun blast was followed by a sharp percussive explosion as the entire hillside lit up in a white phosphorescent glare.
Moths bob around in balls of phosphorescent light, and the day's heat emanates from the ground.
Good use was also made of neon lights, phosphorescent glow sticks, reflectors, fiber optics, and a thumping dance floor.
One city seems to have a giant beam of light shooting upward, visible as a bright phosphorescent glow, and then away, gone.
Night fell upon them, and the nightbugs flew from the trees of Nightforest with their phosphorescent bodies, and lacy wings.
Piercing gray eyes that appeared cold under the dim phosphorescent lights, were studying her with curiosity and ill humor.
Many diamonds are fluorescent and phosphorescent under ultraviolet radiation.
You haven't lived until you see a sponge inhaling and exhaling clouds of phosphorescent trace chemicals.
The absorbed energy excites electrons in the phosphorescent material and causes them to be caught in potential energy troughs.
The sensing of oxygen with phosphorescent probes is based on luminescence quenching.
All barites that fluoresce are phosphorescent for variable lengths of time after extended ultraviolet radiation exposure.
Everything, the real walls, the maze walls, and the floors, are painted with phosphorescent paint and black lights are mounted in the ceiling.
He is fond of thin paint and frequently layers a dark blue or black wash over phosphorescent pastel hues.
Becquerel in Paris wondered whether naturally fluorescent or phosphorescent substances might also emit X-rays.
What's more, the mountain was haloed by phosphorescent blue bands of some sort of energy crackling all around it.
This paint or stain shall not be of a black color, nor shall it have fluorescent, phosphorescent, or luminescent properties.
We have ploughed a phosphorescent furrow in the darkness through chunky, Atlantic seas, windward of the West Indies, from Barbados down to Tobago.
Related landscape drawings in white charcoal and colored pencil on black paper convey a dreamy quality, as if the flowers were phosphorescent growths on a sunless asteroid.
But, sure enough, phosphorescent dots spangle the domed roof of the grotto.
My eyes traveled up their phosphorescent legs to their faces and back down again.
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Two tears, phosphorescent in the penumbra, rolled from the eyes of the painter.
During the last hour the room had only been lighted by Porou's phosphorescent eyes.
These fishes, however, are phosphorescent, and thus furnish their own light.
The water is phosphorescent, and when it breaks over the reef it will shine in the night.
At the lower levels we meet the same strata of phosphorescent rock that illuminates Omean.
All round me were little ripples, combing over with a sharp, bristling sound and slightly phosphorescent.
Instead, the warm ocean water, pouring inboard across the buried rail in a flood of pale phosphorescent fire, cushioned his fall.
Had not the blue sea broken in phosphorescent ridges at their feet?
The sulphur polyporus is said sometimes to be phosphorescent.
Below, the black tossing sea was churned into phosphorescent spray, as the steamer drove onwards into the night.
The stream soon widened, and recurring areas of phosphorescent rock lighted my way.
The sun had set the evening before in a red mist, in the midst of the phosphorescent scintillations of the ocean.
Every breath of Porthos, thus vivifying the match, sent towards this heap of bodies a phosphorescent aura, mingled with streaks of purple.
They leered at him with phosphorescent eyes, yellow and purple.
The brasses of the wheel glittered too, with the dimly lit figure of the man detached, as if phosphorescent, against the black and spangled background of the horizon.
Old Fisher's been having a joke with that phosphorescent stuff of his.
Also synthetic and natural iron oxides, organic dyes for high-temperature polymers, and fluorescent, phosphorescent, invisible, and ultramarine pigments.
I was stretched on the ground, just under the shelter of a bush of algae, when, raising my head, I saw some enormous mass, casting phosphorescent gleams, pass blusteringly by.
Glancing narrowly into the more distant darkness, he caught occasional glimpses of visages that loomed pallid and ghostly, lit with a phosphorescent glow.
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