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luminescence

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light from nonthermal sources

light not due to incandescence; occurs at low temperatures

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It might sound odd, but I want to thank Michael Bay because he's been saying how important it is to show 3D with the right luminescence. And that's very important for this film, a lot of which was shot at night or with very low illumination. David Heyman

Other experimental techniques to circumvent the contamination problem include selective optical excitation of einsteinium ions by a tunable laser, such as in studying its luminescence properties. Source: Internet

E. I. Rashba, Self-trapping of excitons, in: Excitons (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1982), p. 547. This means that spectral lines of free excitons and wide bands of self-trapped excitons can be seen simultaneously in absorption and luminescence spectra. Source: Internet

Einsteinium(III) was also incorporated into beta-diketone chelate complexes, since analogous complexes with lanthanides previously showed strongest UV-excited luminescence among metallorganic compounds. Source: Internet

Faraday had been the first to notice a dark space just in front of the cathode, where there was no luminescence. Source: Internet

Journal of Forensic Sciences, 22(1), 1977, 106–115 Dalrymple B. E. "Visible and infrared luminescence in documents : excitation by laser". Source: Internet

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