phosphoroscope love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An instrument for. measuring the duration of evanescent, phospho' resceuce in different substances.
  • noun A philosophical toy consisting of glass tubes containing different phosphorescent substances and arranged in a box.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Physics) An apparatus for observing the phosphorescence produced in different bodies by the action of light, and for measuring its duration.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun physics, chemistry Any of several devices used to measure phosphorescence, and to distinguish it from fluorescence

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