He had inherited from his father a supply of uranium salts, which phosphoresce on exposure to light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henri Becquerel - Biography] Reference

I took a screen made of zincblende, which will phosphoresce when the emanations of radium fall upon it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Radiant] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Worlds To Conquer]

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 phosphoresce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

Its dead color brightens considerably under the molecular impact, but I am now convinced it does not phosphoresce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency] Reference

He found, moreover, that among the organic compounds that could be made to phosphoresce under these conditions were nearly all the fixed and ethereal oils.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky] Reference

We may, therefore, conclude that substances fitted to phosphoresce under the conditions determined by the experiments of Radziszewski are generally, and probably universally, present in the luminous organs of phosphorescent animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky] Reference

It was long known that there were various inorganic bodies besides phosphorus which emitted a phosphorescent light in the dark, at least after being exposed to the rays of the sun; but it was not till quite recently that any organic compound was known to phosphoresce at ordinary temperatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky] Reference

I have succeeded in causing the diamonds of Darius to phosphoresce most wonderfully. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Romance Island] Reference

It was the first of the two (what I call) extrasensory courses - those that engage more than just sight and taste. veil of creeping mist and a verdant, moss scent (I'm pretty certain that the liquid was not liquid nitrogen as it didn't immediately phosphoresce.    From Wordnik.com.  [the ulterior epicure] Reference

It was the first of the few (what I call) multisensory courses - those that engage more than just sight and taste. veil of creeping mist and a verdant, moss scent (I'm pretty certain that the liquid was not liquid nitrogen as it didn't immediately phosphoresce.    From Wordnik.com.  [WordPress.com News] Reference

One is, of course, prepared to encounter two difficulties: first, as regards the rough product, the "crystals," they are good conducting, and it is a fact that conductors do not phosphoresce; second, the powder, being exceedingly fine, would not be apt to exhibit very prominently this quality, since we know that when crystals, even such as diamond or ruby, are finely powdered, they lose the property of phosphorescence to a considerable degree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency] Reference