Phosphorescent

Extract from a letter by Mr. S.C. Patterson, second officer of the P. and O. steamship _Delta_: a spectacle which the _Journal_ continues to call phosphorescent: ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)

Wherever it is rubbed, in the dark, on a door, or on a wall, it leaves a luminous trail of a very peculiar appearance, which has been called phosphorescent, from the name of the substance which produces it. ❋ Jean Mac�� (1854)

Mr. Hoepfner however thinks the dispersion of the diamond by this great heat should be called a phosphorescent evaporation of it, rather than a combustion; and from its other analogies of crystallization, hardness, transparency, and place of its nativity, wishes again to replace it amongst the precious stones. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

When zinc and sulphur are hested together in close vessels the sulphur rises in vapour without t ing to the zinc; but it is staled by Mr.E. Davy, that in some ex - perimenls made in the laboratoiy of the Royal Institution, in which sulphur in vapour was passed over melted zinc, they united, and formed a white crystalline substance, analogous to the substauce found in nature, and called phosphorescent blende. ❋ Humphry Davy, Sir Humphry Davy (1812)

'phosphorescent' - but the children are still and utterly captivated. ❋ Unknown (2010)

- to call the phosphorescent-Slurpee spill of paint on our Genesis coupe: Lime Rock Green. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But once you start talking about washing sperm, intrauterine insemination, Microsort where they actually paint sperm with some kind of phosphorescent dye--eek, IVf, etc., that's up to you. ❋ GreenFertility (2006)

From behind his half-lowered eyelashes they shone with a kind of phosphorescent gleam — if I may so express myself — which was not the reflection of a fervid soul or of a playful fancy, but a glitter like to that of smooth steel, blinding but cold. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Waited until the light died down, then died out, leaving behind only the diagram, the lines now covered with a kind of phosphorescent slime. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1994)

From behind his half-lowered eyelashes they shone with a kind of phosphorescent gleam -- if I may so express myself -- which was not the reflection of a fervid soul or of a playful fancy, but a glitter like to that of smooth steel, blinding but cold. ❋ Unknown (1916)

There are substances -- "phosphorescent" things we call them -- which give out a mysterious cold light of their own. ❋ J. Arthur Thomson (1897)

It is a region of extreme cold -- an eternal winter; of utter darkness -- an eternal night -- relieved only by the fitful gleams of "phosphorescent" animals; of enormous pressure -- 2-1/2 tons on the square inch at a depth of 2,500 fathoms; of profound calm, unbroken silence, immense monotony. ❋ J. Arthur Thomson (1897)

While he was doing so I noticed two things -- firstly, that the place really did smell like a scent-shop, and, secondly, that the coffins seemed to glow with a kind of phosphorescent light of their own, not very strong, but sufficient to reveal their outlines in the gloom. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

We find that some organisms produce as a result of their chemical life material which oxidises and gives out light and so these organisms are "phosphorescent" without any consequence, good or bad, to themselves. ❋ Unknown (1888)

This missive was couched in formal terms, and emitted a kind of phosphorescent wrath. ❋ Unknown (1881)

The river was like a stream of golden fire, each ripple with a kind of phosphorescent gleam as the foam slipped away. ❋ Amanda Minnie Douglas (1873)

There, while the unbroken torrent of the Conway -- glittering along the narrow gorge of the glen between silvered walls of rock as upright as the turreted bastions of a castle -- seemed to flash a kind of phosphorescent light of its own upon the flowers and plants and sparsely scattered trees along the sides, I sat and passed into Winifred's own dream, and the Tylwyth ❋ Theodore Watts-Dunton (1873)

"He always had the coolest stuff on earth that I could mess around with," such as phosphorescent powder he was testing for various glow-in-the-dark applications, his son said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[the sun] is so phosphorescent!!! ❋ Pootimager (2018)

[The paint] was [phosphorescent]. ❋ Iamthedictionaryqueen (2009)

[You guys] are so [far] behind, I'm what they call [phosphorescence pilled], I have transcended. ❋ Pilled (2022)