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What does fluorescence mean?

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  1. (physics) The emission of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) by a material when stimulated by the absorption of radiation or of a subatomic particle.
  2. The light so emitted.
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In the MCS, each excited donor can then either transfer its energy to an acceptor or emit fluorescence, according to the rules listed above.
It was proposed that the sulfur atoms would quench the fluorescence of these tryptophan residues, which appears to be the case.
However, there is a thirty percent decrease in fluorescence intensity of the polymer.
A fluorescence image of 12 tobacco plantlets growing on agar within a covered Perspex Petri dish.
In this study we show how to determine with fluorescence anisotropy a quantitative value of the intrinsic resilience of the protein matrix.
Colour fluorescence micrographs depict the first leaf adaxial surface from 2-week-old wheat.

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