Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A phenomenon in which certain minerals release previously absorbed radiation upon being moderately heated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Luminescence produced by heating a body which exhibits phosphorescence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physics) Luminescence exhibited by a substance on being moderately heated. It is shown esp. by certain substances that have been exposed to the action of light or to X-rays.
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- noun physics The
release ofpreviously absorbed radiation upon beingheated .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The debate focuses on the dating technique, known as thermoluminescence (TL), which uses quartz or feldspar, ubiquitous at archaeological sites, as its subject material.
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In the meantime, only two things are certain: As unusual as our man is among burial figures, he is authentic according to thermoluminescence tests; and whatever he represented to eighth-century Chinese, to 21st-century scholars he is a riveting work of art.
A Mysterious Stranger in China Lee Lawrence 2011
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There are still other techniques: potassium-argon dating, thermoluminescence dating, hydration dating, fission-track dating.
The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009
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His misgivings could be laid to rest by a thermoluminescence test — a standard scientific dating test — but the authorities had refused, he said.
Archive 2008-07-01 Jan 2008
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His misgivings could be laid to rest by a thermoluminescence test — a standard scientific dating test — but the authorities had refused, he said.
Is the Phaistos Disk a Fake??? Jan 2008
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That's where another state-of-the-art technique comes in: thermoluminescence TL dating.
Archive 2008-06-01 Jan 2008
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Small samples taken from inconspicuous parts of the object are heated to a sufficiently high temperature to produce a measurable blue light thermoluminescence.
Archive 2008-06-01 Jan 2008
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His misgivings could be laid to rest by a thermoluminescence test — a standard scientific dating test — but the authorities had refused, he said.
Archive 2008-07-01 Jan 2008
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Small samples taken from inconspicuous parts of the object are heated to a sufficiently high temperature to produce a measurable blue light thermoluminescence.
Forensic Science for Antiques Jan 2008
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That's where another state-of-the-art technique comes in: thermoluminescence TL dating.
Forensic Science for Antiques Jan 2008
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