Literary notes about luminescence (AI summary)
Luminescence is employed in literature to bridge scientific observation with evocative imagery. In technical contexts, it is detailed with precision—its intensity measured against variables like oxygen pressure or temperature, underscoring its role in experimental inquiry ([1], [2], [3]). In narrative and descriptive writing, however, luminescence transcends its technical roots, imbuing scenes with ethereal beauty and mystery. It appears as soft, otherworldly light that seems to emanate naturally from its surroundings—a gentle glow in a downward-slanting tunnel ([4]), a shimmering curtain of green light on a distant horizon ([5]), or even the spectral, inner glow that transforms a mundane view into something transcendent ([6], [7]). Through such varied applications, luminescence enriches the text with layers of meaning that fuse the rational and the imaginative.
- They lose their power of luminescence during the day and only regain it at dusk or when kept in the dark for some time.
— from The Nature of Animal Light by E. Newton (Edmund Newton) Harvey - Curiously enough there is also a "maximum luminescence pressure" of oxygen above which no luminescence occurs.
— from The Nature of Animal Light by E. Newton (Edmund Newton) Harvey - We may then endeavor to write an equation which will represent the fundamental changes in the luminescence reaction.
— from The Nature of Animal Light by E. Newton (Edmund Newton) Harvey - t last we entered a long, downward-slanting tunnel, full of soft luminescence that seemed to come out of the white-tiled walls themselves.
— from Stamped Caution by Raymond Z. Gallun - Half a mile ahead the pillars stopped at the edge of a shimmering, quivering curtain of green luminescence.
— from The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt - It was like a human head illuminated from within by some ghastly luminescence.
— from The Blue Ghost Mystery: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin - Like a glow of fire dimly seen beneath a thin coat of ashes, a mellow luminescence permeated the panoramic view.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
