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chemiluminescence

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Emission of light as a result of a chemical reaction.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Luminescence associated with chemical changes in the luminous substance and probably due to those changes. See luminescence.

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  • noun chemistry The emission of light as the result of a chemical reaction.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun luminescence resulting from a chemical reaction as the oxidation of luciferin in fireflies

Etymologies

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chemi- +‎ luminescence

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Examples

  • Another important method to investigate such reaction details is infrared chemiluminescence, introduced by Polanyi.

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010

  • Inside were licorice witches, chocolate fraidy cats, a light stick—chemiluminescence, a word Lindsay loved to say—and seed packets for plants that liked to grow in the dark, along with a brochure on planning a night-blooming garden.

    The Owl and Moon Cafe Jo-Ann Mapson 2006

  • Inside were licorice witches, chocolate fraidy cats, a light stick—chemiluminescence, a word Lindsay loved to say—and seed packets for plants that liked to grow in the dark, along with a brochure on planning a night-blooming garden.

    The Owl and Moon Cafe Jo-Ann Mapson 2006

  • Splotchy areas light up an electric blue and dance like popping sparks, and the shutter clicks and clicks and Scarpetta sprays, and the blueness pulses rapidly, fading in and out much more quickly than is typical of blood and most other substances that react to chemiluminescence.

    Predator Cornwell, Patricia 2005

  • The phenomenon is an example of chemiluminescence, a complicated process involving electron transfer steps.

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1992 1992

  • The Marcus theory describes, and makes predictions concerning, such widely differing phenomena as the fixation of light energy by green plants, photochemical production of fuel, chemiluminescence ( "cold light"), the conductivity of electrically conducting polymers, corrosion, the methodology of electrochemical synthesis and analysis, and more.

    Press Release: The 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1992

  • Marcus himself proposed in 1965 that chemiluminescence reactions of a certain type ought to represent the inverted region, but it was not until the end of the 1980s that other, more convincing, experimental verifications could be made.

    Press Release: The 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1992

  • In particular, we were then able to study the same reactions elucidated by John Polanyi with his complementary method of infrared chemiluminescence.

    Dudley R. Herschbach - Autobiography 1987

  • John C. Polanyi has developed the method of infrared chemiluminescence, in which the extremely weak infrared emission from a newly formed molecule is measured and analysed.

    Press Release: The 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986

  • This reaction has been studied in crossed molecular beams as well as with infrared chemiluminescence.

    Press Release: The 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986

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