How to Use fluorescence in a Sentence

fluorescence

noun
Definition of fluorescencenext
Synonyms for fluorescencenext
  • But the cells mixed with SNAs lit up the screen with bright red fluorescence.
    — Scientific American, 25 Dec. 2019
  • Researchers don't know as much about the role of fluorescence in fish.
    — Fox News, 30 July 2019
  • The leaves on the trees lining the sidewalk had a mid-autumn fluorescence.
    — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2024
  • This room at the lab is small and quiet and clean, medium-bright with ribs of sunlight on the blinds and a low, blue overhead fluorescence.
    — Daniel Dorsa, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2020
  • X-ray fluorescence can be done in the field with an instrument the size of a hand drill, reducing a process that used to take days or weeks to seconds.
    — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • As the reaction starts, there's very little of that around, so fluorescence is low.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Then there’s X-ray fluorescence, which isn’t used to simply take an image.
    — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Which begs the question, did fluorescence evolve in mammals before the three branches split apart?
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2020
  • One section focuses on fluorescence, found so far in more than 200 species of fish.
    — James Gorman, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The bright fluorescence of the hospital room shone on red and black medical devices.
    — Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Apr. 2023
  • What about the America that my headlights had just swept over during that cross-country drive under the fluorescence of the Waffle House sign?
    — Taylor Weatherby, Billboard, 25 May 2018
  • Robinson and his colleagues used portable X-ray fluorescence to study the layers of paint on the ceiling of Pinwheel Cave.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2020
  • According to Wong, the fluorescence makes the frogs 30 percent brighter during twilight and 19 percent brighter during the full moon.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 Mar. 2017
  • The warm chandelier lighting makes the place glow at night in a flickering candlestick kind of way that detoxes you from a day in fluorescence.
    — Bon Appetit, 25 June 2018
  • However, the fluorescence is not affected by thermal noise in the same way.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2021
  • This way, fluorescence is still generated in the plane of interest but not anywhere else and the end result is a crisp, clear image.
    — Jonathan Nylk, Scientific American, 23 May 2018
  • Tricks like using a yellow or rose gold setting, and picking a stone with some blue fluorescence, can both make a stone with a low color rating look whiter, Hirsch said.
    — Kelli B. Grant, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2017
  • This cell still contains the dye but its fluorescence has been permanently quenched.
    — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 1 May 2015
  • Paper-wasp silk could provide yet more clues about fluorescence’s function on land.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The authors linked the spike (the red one) to a fluorescent protein and found out that producing their hybrid protein dropped the fluorescence by about 30 percent.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2020
  • Their fluorescence in low wavelengths is boosted by infrared light to show the anatomy — organs and tissues where the tumors are lurking.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 6 Apr. 2020
  • The synchrotron radiation excites the atoms on the canvas, which then emit X-rays of their own that can be picked up by a fluorescence detector.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Michiels’s team surveyed hundreds of fish species for fluorescence and found distinct patterns.
    — Smithsonian, 25 July 2019
  • The synchrotron radiation excites the atoms on the canvas, which then emit X-rays of their own that a fluorescence detector can pick up.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 July 2022
  • Coburn was studying blue fluorescence in C. elegans for her PhD project.
    — Christopher Crockett, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2013
  • No halogen, no fluorescence, and no colored light, unless used sparingly and very, very chicly.
    — Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 18 May 2022
  • Researchers were already aware of fluorescence in a handful of amphibians, the damp-skinned animals that can split their time between land and water.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2020
  • Several types of quantum dots were tested on the silkworms for safety and fluorescence.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2022
  • There are shoes everywhere, boots and stilettos and platforms in all shades of nude (this season’s theme); plus neon lights and scented votives to give everything a soft fluorescence.
    — Alex Frank, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2019
  • This fluorescence causes the crystal layer to glow green when irradiated with UV light.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Nov. 2023

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