The physicists had shown that the alpha particles falling on a screen of phosphorescent zinc sulphide produced a number of scintillations.
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Phosphorescent
Synonyms for "phosphorescent" (4 found)
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2 entriesTranslations
15 translations across 15 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- фосфоресциращ adj (emitting light for a period of time after the source of excitation is taken away)
Catalan
1 entries- fosforescent adj (emitting light for a period of time after the source of excitation is taken away)
Czech
1 entries- fosforeskující adj (emitting light for a period of time after the source of excitation is taken away)
Esperanto
1 entries- fosforeska adj (emitting light for a period of time after the source of excitation is taken away)
Finnish
1 entries- fosforoiva adj (emitting light for a period of time after the source of excitation is taken away)
French
1 entries- phosphorescent adj (emitting light for a period of time after the source of excitation is taken away)
Galician
1 entries- fosforescente adj (emitting light for a period of time after the source of excitation is taken away)
Greek
1 entries- φωσφορίζων adj (emitting light for a period of time after the source of excitation is taken away)
Italian
1 entries- fosforescente adj (emitting light for a period of time after the source of excitation is taken away)
Occitan
1 entries- fosforescent adj (emitting light for a period of time after the source of excitation is taken away)
Polish
1 entries- fosforescencyjny adj (emitting light for a period of time after the source of excitation is taken away)
Portuguese
1 entries- fosforescente adj (emitting light for a period of time after the source of excitation is taken away)
Spanish
1 entries- fosforescente adj (emitting light for a period of time after the source of excitation is taken away)
Tagalog
1 entries- mapospowanag adj (emitting light for a period of time after the source of excitation is taken away)
Welsh
1 entries- ffosfforeddol adj (emitting light for a period of time after the source of excitation is taken away)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
So he imports this special breed of scorpions and feeds them on metal meal and the scorpions turned a phosphorescent blue color and sort of hummed.
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