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  • Fluorescent light filled the conference room from the big fixture on the ceiling.

    Archive 2010-05-01 2010

  • Fluorescent lights hung from the ceiling, making it all look even bleaker.

    A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011

  • Fluorescent in situ hybridization utilization for high risk prenatal diagnosis: a trade-off among speed, expense, and inherent limitations of chromosome specific probes.

    Prenatal Diagnosis 2010

  • Fluorescent light bulbs are so cheap up north, for example, that I always buy them at a Costco in Seattle for Lake Chapala, and if they don't last as long, no big deal, I still spend less money up North than I do in Ajijic-Chapala.

    ~~~> I Was Told... 2010

  • Fluorescent light filled the conference room from the big fixture on the ceiling.

    What We Talk About When We Talk About Rejection, Part One 2010

  • Consider his blazingly colorful "Fluorescent Volcano" (1969), or the haunting volcanic terrain in "Rocky Landscape (Pedregal)" painted in 1946.

    Siqueiros in Unfamiliar Terrain Arnie Cooper 2010

  • Actually, I'm quite serious, and given all the great new lighting options -- including halogen incandescent bulbs that look and work as well as the ones you're used to -- only 30 percent more efficiently; CFLs (Compact Fluorescent Lights) that give good light quickly; and LEDs (Light-Emitting Diodes) that now cast light omni-directionally; I'm positively aglow thinking about just how personal these gifts can be.

    Wendy Gordon: Radiant Gifts for the Holidays Wendy Gordon 2011

  • Fluorescent microscopy using a cellphone and lenses

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Actually, I'm quite serious, and given all the great new lighting options -- including halogen incandescent bulbs that look and work as well as the ones you're used to -- only 30 percent more efficiently; CFLs (Compact Fluorescent Lights) that give good light quickly; and LEDs (Light-Emitting Diodes) that now cast light omni-directionally; I'm positively aglow thinking about just how personal these gifts can be.

    Wendy Gordon: Radiant Gifts for the Holidays Wendy Gordon 2011

  • In the end of August, I attended the symposium, "Calcium-Regulated Photoproteins and Green Fluorescent Protein", which was held in my honor at the Friday Harbor Laboratories as part of the lab's centennial celebration.

    Osamu Shimomura - Autobiography 2009

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