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Fluoresce
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Fluoresce meaning
To emit electromagnetic radiation, especially visible light, when absorbing radiation of some other wavelength. | To cause to fluoresce; to make fluorescent. | Of colours, to be very bright; to be so bright as to appear to radiate as a light source.
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A 2008 study reported that ripe bananas fluoresce when exposed to ultraviolet light.
Also called Concha Nácar, the pearls from these rainbow lipped oysters fluoresce red under ultraviolet light.
Enough francium is trapped that a video camera can capture the light given off by the atoms as they fluoresce.
Even materials not specially marked with UV sensitive dyes may have distinctive fluorescence under UV light, or may fluoresce differently under short-wave versus long-wave ultraviolet.
Many types of calcite and amber will fluoresce under shortwave UV, longwave UV and visible light.
Neither does all fluorite fluoresce equally brightly, even from the same locality.
Red light can only be seen across short distances due to attenuation of red light wavelengths by water. citation Many fish species that fluoresce are small, group-living, or benthic/aphotic, and have conspicuous patterning.
Ripened bananas (left, under sunlight ) fluoresce in blue when exposed to UV light "Tree-ripened" Cavendish bananas have a greenish-yellow appearance which changes to a brownish-yellow as they ripen further.
The new exoskeleton does not fluoresce; as sclerotisation occurs, the fluorescence gradually returns.
Therefore, natural selection could be acting on expression of fluorescence across spider species. citation Scorpions also fluoresce. citation Plants The Mirabilis jalapa flower contains violet, fluorescent betacyanins and yellow, fluorescent betaxanthins.
Ultraviolet LEDs Ultraviolet Infinity mirror A 380 nanometre UV LED makes some common household items fluoresce.