electrochemiluminescence

Directory

References

Discover

Happy, smiling, flying pig

7 Everyday English Idioms and Where They Come From

Marriage. A couple getting married during a church wedding ceremony. (religion, ceremony, bride, groom)

The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church

Clouds of smoke rise from fires at the World Trade Center Towers as a result of terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. Photographed 9:54 am in Lower Manhattan.

Timeline of the September 11 Attacks

Poker game. Card game. Royal Flush in poker. Hearts suit gambling

Poker Hands Ranked

Figure 13: A Maxim machine gun, belt-fed and water-cooled, operated by German infantrymen, World War I.

7 Deadliest Weapons in History

illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum

Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs

Alpaca and Llama side by side

What’s the Difference Between Llamas and Alpacas?

electrochemiluminescence

Learn about this topic in these articles:

chemical analysis

In chemical analysis: Luminescence
… causes the luminescence, it is electrochemiluminescence.
Read More

photoluminescence

Table of Contents

Introduction References & Edit History

Read Next

Blackboard inscribed with scientific formulas and calculations in physics and mathematics

The World Science Festival’s Pioneers in Science

Highway Night Traffic Portland, drive, driving, car, automobile.

What's the Difference Between Speed and Velocity?

Laboratory glassware (beakers)

5 Quizzes That Will Tell You Whether You Should Have Been a Scientist

$Light refraction image with a cube. Prism$

How Is Light Both a Particle and a Wave?

Above the clouds 130 nautical miles below, astronaut Mark C. Lee floats freely without tethers as he tests the new Simplified Aid for Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Spacewalk Rescue (SAFER) system, Sept. 16, 1994. Space Shuttle Discovery, STS-64

Gravity: From Apples to the Universe

Discover

Germans from East and West stand on the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate in the November 10, 1989, photo, one day after the wall opened.

Timeline of the 1980s

Happy, smiling, flying pig

7 Everyday English Idioms and Where They Come From

illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum

Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs

Dancers at a Cinco de Mayo festival at the Mission District, San Francisco, California. (Photo dated 2019.) holidays

Is Cinco de Mayo Mexico's Independence Day?

Deck chairs under a beach umbrella.

When Does Summer Start?

The Belgian pride parade 2017. People marching through Brussels streets with LGBT flags and posters.

How Did the Rainbow Flag Become a Symbol of LGBTQ Pride?

Queen Elizabeth II addresses at opening of Parliament. (Date unknown on photo, but may be 1958, the first time the opening of Parliament was filmed.)

All 119 References in “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” Explained

photoluminescence

physics

Written and fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Article History

Related Topics:: luminescence

photoluminescence, emission of light from a substance as a result of absorption of electromagnetic radiation; such a substance is called a phosphor (q.v.), and the emitted light usually has a longer wavelength than the incident radiation.