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Keywords: Wavelength, Emits, Ultraviolet, Shorter, Exposed

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When a substance emits visible light when exposed to light of a shorter wavelength. Ultraviolet light, for example, will cause many objects to fluoresce.

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Emits light while exposed to light.

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A process in which a compound emits light at one wavelength while being excited by radiation with a shorter wavelength.

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the emission of light by a substance.

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Produce light when exposed to radiation of a particular wavelength. For example, some substances fluoresce when exposed to ultraviolet light.

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exhibit or undergo fluorescence - which is light emitted during absorption of radiation of some other (invisible) wavelength.

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