v. [back formation from FLUORESCENCE.] To be or become fluorescent.
1874. trans. Lommel’s Light, 184. The general proposition can therefore be laid down, that a body capable of exhibiting fluorescence fluoresces by virtue of those rays which it absorbs.
1881. S. P. Thompson, Electr. & Magn., iv. § 292. Many beautiful effects are therefore produced by blowing tubes in uranium glass, wich fluoresces with a fine green light, and by placing solutions of quinine or other fluorescent liquids in outer tubes of glass.
