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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
fluoresce .
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Examples
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BP's oil mixed with Corexit fluoresces bright orange at night under high-powered ultra-violet lights, revealing areas where beach sand is coated with the mixture that is invisible under daylight conditions.
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Vivid reds, yellows, and greens can be seen from different angles and the diamond fluoresces with a unique reddish color when exposed to ultraviolet light.
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BP's oil mixed with Corexit fluoresces bright orange at night under high-powered ultra-violet lights, revealing areas where beach sand is coated with the mixture that is invisible under daylight conditions.
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In a highly wrought, almost hallucinatory flashback, Peter remembers an adolescent holiday at a lakeside house and a visionary experience he had there, "a sea-swell of feeling, utterly unexpected, a sensation that starts in his bowels and fluoresces through his body, dizzying, giddying."
Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham Sammy Perlmutter 2010
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The touch receptor neurons of the millimetre-sized roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans fluoresces green.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008 - Illustrated Presentation 2008
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In a highly wrought, almost hallucinatory flashback, Peter remembers an adolescent holiday at a lakeside house and a visionary experience he had there, "a sea-swell of feeling, utterly unexpected, a sensation that starts in his bowels and fluoresces through his body, dizzying, giddying."
Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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In a highly wrought, almost hallucinatory flashback, Peter remembers an adolescent holiday at a lakeside house and a visionary experience he had there, "a sea-swell of feeling, utterly unexpected, a sensation that starts in his bowels and fluoresces through his body, dizzying, giddying."
Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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For instance, it explains how nature produced a large blue diamond 45 carats now, possibly 115 to begin with that fluoresces bright red and may or may not bring horrible suffering to all who own it.
Searching Lennon Nancy deWolf Smith 2010
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Roger Y. Tsien contributed to our general understanding of how GFP fluoresces.
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Caron Butler, Washington Wizards When most of us want a glass of something heavily caffeinated that fluoresces green, we can just reach for a Mountain Dew.
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