How to Use fluorescence in a Sentence

fluorescence

noun

• But the cells mixed with SNAs lit up the screen with bright red fluorescence.
  — Scientific American, 25 Dec. 2019
• Researchers don't know as much about the role of fluorescence in fish.
  — Fox News, 30 July 2019
• The leaves on the trees lining the sidewalk had a mid-autumn fluorescence.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2024
• This room at the lab is small and quiet and clean, medium-bright with ribs of sunlight on the blinds and a low, blue overhead fluorescence.
  — Daniel Dorsa, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2020
• X-ray fluorescence can be done in the field with an instrument the size of a hand drill, reducing a process that used to take days or weeks to seconds.
  — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• As the reaction starts, there's very little of that around, so fluorescence is low.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2020
• Then there’s X-ray fluorescence, which isn’t used to simply take an image.
  — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2022
• Which begs the question, did fluorescence evolve in mammals before the three branches split apart?
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2020
• One section focuses on fluorescence, found so far in more than 200 species of fish.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
• The bright fluorescence of the hospital room shone on red and black medical devices.
  — Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Apr. 2023
• What about the America that my headlights had just swept over during that cross-country drive under the fluorescence of the Waffle House sign?
  — Taylor Weatherby, Billboard, 25 May 2018
• Robinson and his colleagues used portable X-ray fluorescence to study the layers of paint on the ceiling of Pinwheel Cave.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2020
• According to Wong, the fluorescence makes the frogs 30 percent brighter during twilight and 19 percent brighter during the full moon.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 Mar. 2017
• The warm chandelier lighting makes the place glow at night in a flickering candlestick kind of way that detoxes you from a day in fluorescence.
  — Bon Appetit, 25 June 2018
• However, the fluorescence is not affected by thermal noise in the same way.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2021
• This way, fluorescence is still generated in the plane of interest but not anywhere else and the end result is a crisp, clear image.
  — Jonathan Nylk, Scientific American, 23 May 2018
• Tricks like using a yellow or rose gold setting, and picking a stone with some blue fluorescence, can both make a stone with a low color rating look whiter, Hirsch said.
  — Kelli B. Grant, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2017
• This cell still contains the dye but its fluorescence has been permanently quenched.
  — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 1 May 2015
• Paper-wasp silk could provide yet more clues about fluorescence’s function on land.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2021
• The authors linked the spike (the red one) to a fluorescent protein and found out that producing their hybrid protein dropped the fluorescence by about 30 percent.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2020
• Their fluorescence in low wavelengths is boosted by infrared light to show the anatomy — organs and tissues where the tumors are lurking.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 6 Apr. 2020
• The synchrotron radiation excites the atoms on the canvas, which then emit X-rays of their own that can be picked up by a fluorescence detector.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Dec. 2020
• Michiels’s team surveyed hundreds of fish species for fluorescence and found distinct patterns.
  — Smithsonian, 25 July 2019
• The synchrotron radiation excites the atoms on the canvas, which then emit X-rays of their own that a fluorescence detector can pick up.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 July 2022
• Coburn was studying blue fluorescence in C. elegans for her PhD project.
  — Christopher Crockett, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2013
• However, not much has been known about the frequency of fluorescence among mammals.
  — Emma Ogao, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2023
• No halogen, no fluorescence, and no colored light, unless used sparingly and very, very chicly.
  — Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 18 May 2022
• Researchers were already aware of fluorescence in a handful of amphibians, the damp-skinned animals that can split their time between land and water.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2020
• Several types of quantum dots were tested on the silkworms for safety and fluorescence.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2022
• The more green fluorescence produced by the plant, the higher the radiation intensity.
  — Neal Stewart, The Conversation, 21 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024