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Also Known As	cold light

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energy levels of a luminescent centre

electron transition

bioluminescence

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electrochemiluminescence triboluminescence radioluminescence quenching chemiluminescence electroluminescence phosphorescence fluorescence thermoluminescence photoluminescence photoelectric effect photovoltaic effect absorption pair production resonance thermal radiation Auger effect Planck’s constant Cherenkov radiation Poynting vector

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Gilbert N. Lewis

American chemist

Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.

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