How to Use fluorescence in a Sentence

fluorescence

noun
  • Researchers don't know as much about the role of fluorescence in fish.
    — Fox News, 30 July 2019
  • Showoff How the birds move can also affect the way their fluorescence shows up.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2025
  • The leaves on the trees lining the sidewalk had a mid-autumn fluorescence.
    — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2024
  • But the cells mixed with SNAs lit up the screen with bright red fluorescence.
    — Scientific American, 25 Dec. 2019
  • As the reaction starts, there's very little of that around, so fluorescence is low.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Unlike with fluorescence, this process does not need an external source of light.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Then there’s X-ray fluorescence, which isn’t used to simply take an image.
    — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Paper-wasp silk could provide yet more clues about fluorescence’s function on land.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Which begs the question, did fluorescence evolve in mammals before the three branches split apart?
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Sometimes the bird can change its degree of fluorescence just by moving into areas with more or less light.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2025
  • This cell still contains the dye but its fluorescence has been permanently quenched.
    — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 1 May 2015
  • 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
  • Michiels’s team surveyed hundreds of fish species for fluorescence and found distinct patterns.
    — Smithsonian, 25 July 2019
  • The bright fluorescence of the hospital room shone on red and black medical devices.
    — Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Apr. 2023
  • One section focuses on fluorescence, found so far in more than 200 species of fish.
    — James Gorman, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
  • However, the fluorescence is not affected by thermal noise in the same way.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2021
  • Depending on the species, fluorescence showed up in different body parts, such as the birds’ bellies, chests, heads and necks.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 20 Feb. 2025
  • No halogen, no fluorescence, and no colored light, unless used sparingly and very, very chicly.
    — Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 18 May 2022
  • 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
  • However, not much has been known about the frequency of fluorescence among mammals.
    — Emma Ogao, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Later in the Archimedes Palimpsest project, researchers used x-ray fluorescence to bring out iron in the older ink.
    — Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Several types of quantum dots were tested on the silkworms for safety and fluorescence.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • In traditional fluorescence microscopy the whole sample is usually lit by the laser from above.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2010
  • 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
  • This becomes a kind of benchmark and any movement away from this location causes the fluorescence to diminish.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2021
  • To address this challenge, the researchers developed a method based on fluorescence spectroscopy.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Measuring this fluorescence allows scientists to calculate how many atoms are in the trap.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2025
  • For example, a species of marine snail eats an algae that is then excreted and leaves behind a weak fluorescence, according to the study.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024

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