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Fluorescence

September 25, 2008
By Dean S.
These words are related to Fluorescence. Fluorescent minerals are beautiful when viewed under ultraviolet light. Here is a link to some of these specimens: http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~hamblen/uvminerals/

Fluorescent minerals respond to ultraviolet light by producing a wide variety of colors in visible light. Ultraviolet light is invisible to the human eye. Only a small fraction of minerals are fluorescent. Small amounts of impurities called activators are required for many minerals to fluoresce. Different activators can produce different colors in the same mineral.
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bioluminescence
chemiluminescence
coating
color
http://www.conservapedia.com/Color_perception Color (or 'colour' in British English) is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, white, etc. Color derives from the spectrum of light (distribution ...

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