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Phosphor   /fˈɑsfˌɔr/   Listen
Phosphor

noun
1.
A synthetic substance that is fluorescent or phosphorescent; used to coat the screens of cathode ray tubes.



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"Phosphor" Quotes from Famous Books



... sharp, short showers, that smote us with the keenness of hail. The sea, to the horizon, was white with its own dashings, and every mountain surge that swept to the shore was edged with light—the whole, one magnificent sheet of phosphor and foam. Yet, awful as all was, all was so exciting that I actually enjoyed the scene. But the excitement grew stronger still, when the sudden report of two guns from seaward, the signal for the approach of the lugger, followed almost immediately by a ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 • Various
... not even love, But an unwitting void thereof), Gives back to thee in sanctities of flower; And holy odours do her bosom invest, That sweeter grows for being prest: Though dear recoil, the tremorous nurse of joy, From thine embrace still startles coy, Till Phosphor lead, at thy returning hour, The laughing captive from the ...
— New Poems • Francis Thompson


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