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Phosphor   /fˈɑsfˌɔr/   Listen
Phosphor

noun
1.
A synthetic substance that is fluorescent or phosphorescent; used to coat the screens of cathode ray tubes.



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"Phosphor" Quotes from Famous Books



... Anne, For the dark owl, Night, has fled, And Phosphor slumbers, as well as he can With a daffodil sky for a bed: And the musk of the roses perplexes a man, And ...
— The Heptalogia • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... offensive apparatus is situated. This turret rises above the four-foot armored body at about the center of the car. In it is the new model Maxim rapid- fire gun, mounted very strongly on an apparatus of steel and phosphor bronze, the invention of Canadian engineers. This gun mount really carries the revolving turret which surrounds it, and which revolves so easily on ball bearings that a mere touch of the hand will move it. It can make a complete revolution, so that ...
— A History of The Nations and Empires Involved and a Study - of the Events Culminating in The Great Conflict • Logan Marshall


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