Luminescence is the property of a material to glow with its own light, but there are many types of luminescence with their own mechanisms of action. The word comes from the root lumen, meaning light. Often the light given off comes from absorbed light prior, but other times the light can come from the inner […]
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How fluorescence works may seem mysterious, but it’s a simply step by step process. You don’t need to know much about chemistry to actually understand what happens. We just have to be comfortable imagining the inside of a molecule, where busy bee electrons buzz with their respective energies. They are easily influenced by incoming light,
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Fluorescence is a relatively new character on the stage of science, but the history of fluorescence goes back 500 years! Even then, the property itself is not a man-made invention. Fluorescence is a naturally occurring feature of many minerals, plants, and even animals. Here we will see how the first observations of fluorescence slowly gave
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