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  2. Phosphorescence - Wikipedia

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    Stars made of glow-in-the-dark plastic are placed on walls, ceilings, or hanging from strings make a room look like the night sky. [29] Other objects like figurines, cups, posters, [30] lamp fixtures, toys [31] and bracelet beads may also glow. [32] Using blacklights makes these things glow brightly, common at raves, bedrooms, theme parks, and ...

  3. Blacklight paint - Wikipedia

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    Black light paint or black light fluorescent paint is luminous paint that glows under a black light. It is based on pigments that respond to light in the ultraviolet segment of the electromagnetic spectrum. The paint may or may not be colorful under ordinary light. Black light paint should not be confused with phosphorescent (glow-in-the-dark ...

  4. Fluorescence - Wikipedia

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    Fluorescent marine organisms Fluorescent clothes used in black light theater production, Prague. Fluorescence is one of two kinds of photoluminescence, the emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation. When exposed to ultraviolet radiation, many substances will glow (fluoresce) with colored visible ...

  5. The Weird and Wonderful World of Radioactive Glassware ... - AOL

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    When Sarah Cooper goes secondhand shopping, she brings a little blacklight with her and shines it on everything—candlesticks, vases, dishware.If it starts glowing, often a Ghostbusters hue of ...

  6. Wombats, other Australian animals glow in the dark under UV ...

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    Scientists have discovered that wombats, platypi and other Australian mammals glow in the dark under ultraviolet light, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported. Researchers in Wisconsin ...

  7. Blacklight - Wikipedia

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    Blacklight fluorescent tubes. The violet glow of a blacklight is not the UV light itself, but visible light that escapes being filtered out by the filter material in the glass envelope. A blacklight, also called a UV-A light, Wood's lamp, or ultraviolet light, is a lamp that emits long-wave ultraviolet light and very little visible light.

  8. Luminous paint - Wikipedia

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    Fluorescent body paint under a black light. Fluorescent paints 'glow' when exposed to short-wave ultraviolet (UV) radiation. These UV wavelengths are found in sunlight and many artificial lights, but the paint requires a special black light to view so these glowing-paint applications are called 'black-light effects'.

  9. Luminous gemstones - Wikipedia

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    The first involves a black crane; according to legend, when a crane has lived a thousand years it turns blue; after another thousand it becomes black and is called a xuanhe (玄鶴. "dark crane"). Kuai Shen [噲參] was the most filial son to his mother. Once a black crane was injured by a bow hunter and in its extremity, went to Kuai.