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luminous paint
noun
- paint containing a phosphor that emits visible light when irradiated with ultraviolet light.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of luminous paint1
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Example Sentences
Or, the photon may be retained for a while and emitted again relatively unchanged—the effect observed in luminous paint.
The luminous paint which has recently attracted so much attention is of the same nature.
They obtained a vigorous effect from Balmain's luminous paint, but when this was mixed in gelatin there was no external effect.
He had made it himself, and had ornamented it with a grotesque face in luminous paint.
He had fooled considerable with phosphorus, and had some of the luminous paint that he had mixed some time before.
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