Sentences with phrase «phosphorescence at»

We watched kite surfers daily and saw some phosphorescence at night!

I hope everyone gets a chance to see phosphorescence at least once in their lifetime.

Not exact matches

Heat and light, being modes of motion, «phosphorescence» and «incandescence» are phenomena to which consciousness has been likened by the production - theory: «As one sees a metallic rod, placed in a glowing furnace, gradually heat itself, and — as the undulations of the caloric grow more and more frequent — pass successively from the shades of bright red to dark red (sic), to white, and develope, as its temperature rises, heat and light, — so the living sensitive cells, in presence of the incitations that solicit them, exalt themselves progressively as to their most interior sensibility, enter into a phase of erethism, and at a certain number of vibrations, set free (dégagent) pain as a physiological expression of this same sensibility superheated to a red - white.»

Phosphorescence from organic compounds has typically been observed at extremely low temperatures and in the absence of oxygen, which limits their scope for practical applications.

A ghostly phosphorescence, a gleaming flash, its large eyes unblinking as it slipped into a seam in the current, then rose toward the luminous surface where a school of tuna was pecking at the tiny larvae and crustaceans snagged on a weed line.

Octopus roam and squirrelfish dart out of your light beam, and the phosphorescence sparkles at your fin tips.

Both are in thermodynamic equilibrium at each individual wavelength, much as Kirchoff describes, and there's not much business about excitation and delayed emission going on (as there is in phosphorescence and luminescence).