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What does fluorescence mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word fluorescence? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (physics) The emission of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) by a material when stimulated by the absorption of radiation or of a subatomic particle.
  2. The light so emitted.
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It was proposed that the sulfur atoms would quench the fluorescence of these tryptophan residues, which appears to be the case.
The majority of the methods are based on the fluorescence measurements or on the usage of radioactive labels for detecting matter flux.
Major differences in fluorescence responses were detected between adaxial and abaxial tissues of sun leaves.
When they walked out into the cold night, she turned to him and her face was aglow with the golden fluorescence of streetlights.
A fluorescence image of 12 tobacco plantlets growing on agar within a covered Perspex Petri dish.
Major products include Microplate washers, absorptiometers and fluorescence photometers, as well as software to control such equipment.

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