Advantage of this effect is taken in a photoflash device and in some spot-welding equipment.    From Wordnik.com.  [6. Electrical Field] Reference

Every few minutes the whole landscape seems to explode, as if a giant photoflash has gone off above it.    From Wordnik.com.  [2010 Odyssey Two]

In the cosmic ray example, a better indication would be that it has an energy similar to what is required for a photoflash on a camera.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meteor Crater] Reference

The words were caught in a firework of photoflash, and her picture appeared on the cover of Celebrity Ferrets, her question turned large type below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rescue Ferrets at Sea] Reference

He thinks of Pearl Harbor, just under ten years ago, he was in New York that day as well, and the news seemed to shimmer in the air, everything in photoflash, plain objects hot and charged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Underworld] Reference

It enables exposure times of 0.3 millionth of a second (300 nanoseconds) - much faster than conventional photoflash units (50 microseconds) and industrial stroboscope lamps (one microsecond).    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

27 Dawn At 0200 hours the next morning the police helped us across the pavement to the car in a storm of photoflash.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 9th Directive]

You see, while Tau Ceti is a close relative of the Sun, by spectral types, Tau is smaller and gives off only about three-tenths as much sunshine-so, by the same old tired inverse square law you use to plan the lights for a living room or to arrange a photoflash picture, a planet fifty million miles from Tau would catch the same amount of sunlight as a planet ninety-three million miles from Sol, which is where Earth sits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time For The Stars]

2.0 Mega pixels Camera with photoflash lamp.    From Wordnik.com.  [ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds] Reference