phosphorescent

• “Extract from a letter by Mr. S.C. Patterson, second officer of the P. and O. steamship _Delta_: a spectacle which the _Journal_ continues to call phosphorescent:”

  The Book of the Damned

• “Wherever it is rubbed, in the dark, on a door, or on a wall, it leaves a luminous trail of a very peculiar appearance, which has been called phosphorescent, from the name of the substance which produces it.”

  The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals

• “Mr. Hoepfner however thinks the dispersion of the diamond by this great heat should be called a phosphorescent evaporation of it, rather than a combustion; and from its other analogies of crystallization, hardness, transparency, and place of its nativity, wishes again to replace it amongst the precious stones.”

  The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation

• “When zinc and sulphur are hested together in close vessels the sulphur rises in vapour without t ing to the zinc; but it is staled by Mr.E. Davy, that in some ex - perimenls made in the laboratoiy of the Royal Institution, in which sulphur in vapour was passed over melted zinc, they united, and formed a white crystalline substance, analogous to the substauce found in nature, and called phosphorescent blende.”

  Internet Archive: Elements of Chemical Philosophy: Part 1, Vol.1

• “phosphorescent' - but the children are still and utterly captivated.”

  Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph

• “- to call the phosphorescent-Slurpee spill of paint on our Genesis coupe: Lime Rock Green.”

  Automotive News Blog at CARandDRIVER.com - Car News Resource

• “But once you start talking about washing sperm, intrauterine insemination, Microsort where they actually paint sperm with some kind of phosphorescent dye--eek, IVf, etc., that's up to you.”

  Fertility Facts: Does Going to a Doctor Really Help?

• “From behind his half-lowered eyelashes they shone with a kind of phosphorescent gleam — if I may so express myself — which was not the reflection of a fervid soul or of a playful fancy, but a glitter like to that of smooth steel, blinding but cold.”

  A Hero of Our Time

• “Waited until the light died down, then died out, leaving behind only the diagram, the lines now covered with a kind of phosphorescent slime.”

  Jinx High

• “From behind his half-lowered eyelashes they shone with a kind of phosphorescent gleam -- if I may so express myself -- which was not the reflection of a fervid soul or of a playful fancy, but a glitter like to that of smooth steel, blinding but cold.”

  A Hero of Our Time

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