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What does evanescent mean?

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The intensity of the evanescent wave created at the bottom of the flow cell decays exponentially with the distance from the slide's surface.
In past years evanescent wave microscopy was used to study the dynamics of vesicles in endocrine cells and in goldfish bipolar cell terminals.
They are sometimes preserved by bottling but lose much of their evanescent flavour.
The sheet of colored Plexiglas is unevenly spray-painted with an evanescent grey.
Sometimes I'll describe it as an evanescent delusion, sometimes as a centuries-old tradition established with surprising firmness.
I don't want to go into detail, but the phenomena can be explained by Maxwell's equation and evanescent waves.

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