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Phosphorescent

Shining with a phosphoric light; luminous without sensible heat.

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Light 84% connected

That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.

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Light 84% connected

That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.

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Phosphoresce 74% connected

To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.

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Phosphoresce 74% connected

To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.

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Phosphorescence 74% connected

The quality or state of being phosphorescent; or the act of phosphorescing.

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Phosphorescence 74% connected

The quality or state of being phosphorescent; or the act of phosphorescing.

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Beam noun · 78% connection

A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat.

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Bright adjective · 78% connection

Radiating or reflecting light; shedding or having much light; shining; luminous; not dark.

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Burn verb · 78% connection

To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some pr…

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Calorescence noun · 78% connection

The conversion of obscure radiant heat into light; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility.

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Caloric noun · 78% connection

The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientifi…

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Combustion noun · 78% connection

The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat.

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Eclipse noun · 78% connection

An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either b…

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Effulgent adjective · 78% connection

Diffusing a flood of light; shining; luminous; beaming; bright; splendid.

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Entropy noun · 78% connection

A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remain…

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Firefly noun · 78% connection

Any luminous winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family Lampyridae.

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Fluophosphate noun · 78% connection

A double salt of fluoric and phosphoric acids.

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Glacial adjective · 78% connection

Resembling ice; having the appearance and consistency of ice; -- said of certain solid compounds; as, glacial phosphoric or acetic aci…

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Glow verb · 78% connection

To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.

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Heat of condensation noun · 78% connection

heat liberated by a unit mass of gas at its boiling point as it condenses into a liquid; "the heat of condensation is equal to the hea…

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Heat of fusion noun · 78% connection

heat absorbed by a unit mass of a solid at its melting point in order to convert the solid into a liquid at the same temperature; "the…

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Hot superl. · 78% connection

Having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth in a great degree; very warm; -- opposed to cold, and exceeding warm in degr…

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Hypophosphoric adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to, or derived from, or containing, phosphorus in a lower state of oxidation than in phosphoric compounds; as, hypophosphor…

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Hypophosphorous adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus in a lower state of oxidation than in phosphoric compounds; as, hypophosphorous acid.

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