incandesce

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The molecules incandesce, and burn like true stars with a brilliancy that is often magnificent.

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  1. transitive and intransitive verb To make or become incandescent.

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  • The molecules incandesce, and burn like true stars with a brilliancy that is often magnificent. —  Astronomy for Amateurs
  • And then the stars, grand lighthouses of the Heavens, in their turn incandesce. —  Astronomy for Amateurs
  • In July, 1859, he lit up one of the rooms of his house at Salem, Massachusetts, every evening with such lamps, using in them small pieces of platinum and iridium wire, which were made to incandesce by means of current from primary batteries. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • The Phoenix Foundation, chiefly, so ubiquitous yet enlivening on film here - are nothing if not tailor-made for the incandesce of cinema. " —  GreenCine Daily
  • | "incandesce .. | 2 to 7 | Stebbins | —  Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use
 

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  1. Latin incandēscere, to glow : in-, intensive pref.; see in-2 + candēscere, to glow, inchoative of candēre, to shine; see kand- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin incandescere, become warm or hot, glow, kindle, from in, in, + candescere, kindle, glow: see candescent.
 

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