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  2. Radioluminescence - Wikipedia

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    Radioluminescence is used as a low level light source for night illumination of instruments or signage. Radioluminescent paint is occasionally used for clock hands and instrument dials, enabling them to be read in the dark. Radioluminescence is also sometimes seen around high-power radiation sources, such as nuclear reactors and radioisotopes.

  3. Tritium radioluminescence - Wikipedia

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    Tritium radioluminescence is the use of gaseous tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, to create visible light. Tritium emits electrons through beta decay and, when they interact with a phosphor material, light is emitted through the process of phosphorescence .

  4. Kaliat Ramesh - Wikipedia

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    Ramesh is a specialist in the areas of impact physics and the behavior and failure of materials under extreme conditions. His research focuses on fundamental studies of deformation and failure, with applications in mechanical engineering, materials science, planetary science, and biomedicine. He pioneered experimental methods for characterizing ...

  5. Radium dial - Wikipedia

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    November 1917 ad for an Ingersoll "Radiolite" watch, one of the first watches mass marketed in the USA featuring a radium-illuminated dial. Radium was discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898 [1] and was soon combined with paint to make luminescent paint, which was applied to clocks, airplane instruments, and the like, to be able to read them in the dark.

  6. Luminescence - Wikipedia

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    Candoluminescence, is light emitted by certain materials at elevated temperatures, which differs from the blackbody emission expected at the temperature in question. Mechanoluminescence, a result of a mechanical action on a solid Triboluminescence, generated when bonds in a material are broken when that material is scratched, crushed, or rubbed

  7. Institute for Materials Research - Wikipedia

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    The institute is the oldest of the five research institutes of Tohoku University.It was started 90 years ago by the late Professor Kotaro Honda for research on KS steel.In 1987, it was reorganized into its present form, a national collaborative research institute, and designated as a Center of Excellence (COE) for materials science.

  8. Tritium - Wikipedia

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    Tritium (from Ancient Greek τρίτος (trítos) 'third') or hydrogen-3 (symbol T or 3 H) is a rare and radioactive isotope of hydrogen with a half-life of ~12.3 years. The tritium nucleus (t, sometimes called a triton) contains one proton and two neutrons, whereas the nucleus of the common isotope hydrogen-1 (protium) contains one proton and no neutrons, and that of non-radioactive hydrogen ...

  9. Frances Wick - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, she did research over the summer in other laboratories at General Electric, Harvard University, Cornell University, University of Cambridge, Berlin, and Vienna. Wick twice worked at the Institute for Radium Research , where she conducted research on radioluminescence in Karl Przibram's research group. [ 4 ]