Showing posts with label fluorescent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fluorescent. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

fluorescent, florescent

Fluorescent or fluorescent describes the production of light by passing electricity through gas in a tube, or the radiation of light when exposed to radiation, such as the sun or x-rays--
Fluorescent light may make it easier to work in here; it's too dark.
Some people think that fluorescent light makes them nervous.
Will this be fluorescent under an ultra-violet light?

Florescent or florescent ( rhymes with fluorescent ) describes a state of flowering or blooming--
This shrub is florescent only when a companion shrub is nearby.
This plant, when florescent, attracts bees.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"His poem compares the bright fluorescent clouds to the florescent apple trees ."