Usage examples (12)

• He had inherited from his father a supply of uranium salts, which phosphoresce on exposure to light.
• I took a screen made of zincblende, which will phosphoresce when the emanations of radium fall upon it.
• But on some nights the sea would phosphoresce, he remembered, you dipped your hand into the waves that lapped against your boat and lifted it with fire streaming off ....
• If then we prepare densely inseminated plates of these two bacteria in gelatine food-medium to which starch is added as the only carbohydrate, the bacteria grow but do not...