Types Of Lights Flashcards

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Chemiluminescence?

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Emission of light caused by a chemical reaction, produces little heat, used in glow in the dark sticks

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Bioluminescence?

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Production and emission of light by a living organism. Basically chemiluminescence but in living organism. Mostly in water organisms, used for communication attraction or camoflauge

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Phosphorescence?

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Process in which energy that is absorbed by a substance is released relatively slowly in the form of light. this causes things to glow in the dark

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Florescence?

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Emission of visible light by a substance that has absorbed light of a different wavelength.

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