How to Use fluoresce in a Sentence

fluoresce

verb

• The shortest fullertubes don’t fluoresce, but the longer ones show signs of it.
  — James R. Riordon, Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022
• Corals, too, can fluoresce very prettily in a wide range of hues, and the proteins that cause this are in the same family as GFP.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2019
• Could this be why so few amphibians were known to fluoresce?
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• And at that point, the solution can fluoresce so much that it can be detected.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Aug. 2020
• The copies are cleverly designed to fluoresce when they’re formed.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 18 Aug. 2020
• Those echoes will fluoresce in different ways depending on the atoms present in the sample.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Aug. 2019
• Deadly fish known for their spikes and venom may pack a newfound weapon — switchblades on their faces, some of which can fluoresce green, a new study finds.
  — Charles Choi, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2018
• The quinine in tonic water will fluoresce a bright blue, as will the darkest spots on an overripe banana.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 24 May 2018
• The mechanism rests on the fact that this cluster can fluoresce with a spectrum that consists of three colors — a central peak plus two fainter side-peaks.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2021
• Smaller species are more likely to fluoresce than larger ones.
  — Smithsonian, 25 July 2019
• Kayes and company will be taking his lasers underwater in early 2017 to fluoresce the sea life of coral reefs.
  — Jon Tennant, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2016
• Stewart and his colleagues reckon that an amino acid like phenylalanine, which is released from a dead body, could cause leaves to fluoresce in a distinct way.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 3 Sep. 2020
• Glowing might also play a role in helping the sharks find mates, since males and females fluoresce in different patterns.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
• But knowing a tiny amphibian might shine green among leaves that fluoresce red in blue light, could make surveys much easier.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• As a control, Rober uses a blacklight to note which spots fluoresced before the students (who didn't know about the experiment) arrived.
  — Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 26 Mar. 2020
• In some cases, using a different technique, the cells can also be made to fluoresce under a light source, allowing a researcher with a microscope to watch the brain at work.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 24 Nov. 2021
• Almost any body fluid will fluoresce at 454 nanometers, but in this case the fluid is semen—though not from the original crime; that was all removed in swatches for evidence.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 28 July 2017
• Those instruments measure how rocks fluoresce, absorb and reflect light when they are hit with different lasers.
  — Derek Smith, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
• This caused the structure to fluoresce differently when a laser was trained on it, emitting near-infrared radiation that was picked up by a camera nearby.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2016
• As this glow washes over nearby rocks, the elements within them will fluoresce, letting Pragyaan see their chemical makeup.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 22 July 2019
• It's long been known that bones fluoresce under ultraviolet light, some researchers have even used the property to find fossils, but our bones are usually all covered up.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2018
• Imagine a softly glowing world, inhabited by a multitude of species that fluoresce in response to their star’s violent outbursts.
  — National Geographic, 24 Aug. 2016
• That distantly related species of amphibians all fluoresced suggests that the trait likely developed early in amphibian evolution and may be quite widespread among the group.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• Researchers who survey disappearing populations of amphibians could make use of the trait to spot green-fluorescing salamanders in a jungle.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2020
• Not every chameleon possesses the ability to fluoresce visibly, though.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2018
• This involves introducing into cells genes that produce proteins that fluoresce with a greenish glow, so they and their axons (neurons’ output wires) can be visualized with light microscopy.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2018
• His animals are bred to have a special protein in their auditory striatum that fluoresces when certain neurons are activated.
  — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• To distinguish between neurons and glia, Herculano-Houzel injected the vials with a chemical dye that would make all nuclei fluoresce blue under ultraviolet light, and then with another dye to make the nuclei of neurons glow red.
  — Ferris Jabr, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2017
• This process works because the collagen in the parchment fluoresces a soft blue color under near-ultraviolet illumination.
  — Ken Krebs, Scientific American Blog Network, 7 July 2017
• In 2015, National Geographic explorer David Gruber found that hawksbill sea turtles fluoresce green and red—the first biofluorescence ever recorded in a reptile.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 5 Dec. 2019

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