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  2. YBA - Wikipedia

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    YBA or yba can refer to a number of things: Young British Artists, a movement of British artists in the 1980s and 1990s; Yala language, a language spoken in Ogoja, Nigeria, by ISO 639 code; Young Buddhist Association, an association of Buddhists in the U.S. Banff Airport, an airstrip near Banff, Alberta, Canada, by IATA code

  3. Photoluminescence - Wikipedia

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    Fluorescent solutions under UV light. Absorbed photons are rapidly re-emitted under longer electromagnetic wavelengths. Photoluminescence (abbreviated as PL) is light emission from any form of matter after the absorption of photons (electromagnetic radiation). [1]

  4. Yttrium - Wikipedia

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    Yttrium is a key ingredient in the yttrium barium copper oxide (YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7, aka 'YBCO' or '1-2-3') superconductor developed at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and the University of Houston in 1987. [49] This superconductor is notable because the operating superconductivity temperature is above liquid nitrogen's boiling point (77.1 K ...

  5. Luminescence - Wikipedia

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    Luminol and haemoglobin, an example of chemiluminescence UV-photoluminescence in microbiological diagnostics. Luminescence is a spontaneous emission of radiation from an electronically or vibrationally excited species not in thermal equilibrium with its environment.

  6. Young British Artists - Wikipedia

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    Many of the YBA artists graduated from the BA Fine Art course at Goldsmiths, in the late 1980s, whereas some from the group had trained at Royal College of Art. [ 2 ] The scene began around a series of artist-led exhibitions held in warehouses and factories, beginning in 1988 with the Damien Hirst-led Freeze and, in 1990, East Country Yard Show ...

  7. Phosphorescence - Wikipedia

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    العربية; বাংলা; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български; Bosanski; Català; Čeština; Deutsch

  8. Bioluminescence - Wikipedia

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    Luminescent dinoflagellate ecosystems are present in warm water lagoons and bays with narrow openings to the ocean. [42] A different effect is the thousands of square miles of the ocean which shine with the light produced by bioluminescent bacteria, known as mareel or the milky seas effect .

  9. Luminescence (album) - Wikipedia

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    In Indonesia, the album was certified quadruple platinum for exceeding sales of over 450,000 copies as of 2015. [2] With the album, Anggun expanded her popularity to Eastern Europe . Luminescence was certified gold in Russia, while the album's singles accumulatively received more than 79,000 plays on Russian radio according to TopHit.ru .