autoluminescence

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

auto- +‎ luminescence

Noun[edit]

autoluminescence (uncountable)

  1. luminescence activated by the energy of a substance itself
    • 2015 October 27, “Combined Treatments Reduce Chilling Injury and Maintain Fruit Quality in Avocado Fruit during Cold Quarantine”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      Lipid peroxidation in the fruit was detected and visualized by autoluminescence of peroxide lipids as described previously [33, 34 ], using a programmed sequence of autoluminescence for 20 min with emission at 640–770 nm and excitation-block, a binning factor of 8, and an F-stop factor of 1.

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