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PHOSPHORESCE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they phosphoresce ... he / she / it phosphoresces
Past simple: phosphoresced
Past participle: phosphoresced
-ing form: phosphorescing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "phosphoresce" is one way to...):
exhibit (show an attribute, property, knowledge, or skill)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Derivation:
phosphorescence (a fluorescence that persists after the bombarding radiation has ceased)
phosphorescent (emitting light without appreciable heat as by slow oxidation of phosphorous)