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Bioluminescence
| Title: | Bioluminescence. |
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| Name(s): |
Widder, Edith A., creator Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Issuance: | single unit | |
| Date Issued: | 1999 | |
| Publisher: | Springer | |
| Extent: | 28 p. | |
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| Language(s): | English | |
| Identifier: | 3318902 (digitool), FADT3318902 (IID), fau:6006 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
Unlike incandescence, where the electronically excited state is a consequence of thermal excitation of electrons, chemiluminescence is essentially heatless. Although bioluminescence is often referred to as phosphorescence, as in the quote from Darwin in the next section, this is a misnomer. In phosphorescence the electronically excited state is generated by light absorption, rather than a chemical reaction, and light emission persists for a limited period of time after removal of the excitation source. This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available at http://www.springerlink.com and may be cited as: Widder, E. A. (1999). Bioluminescence. In S. N. Archer, M. B. A. Djamgoz, E. R. Loew, J. C. Partridge, & S. Vallerga (Eds.), Adaptive mechanisms in the ecology of vision. (pp. 555-581). Dordrecht: Kluwer. Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #1300. |
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| Subject(s): |
Chemiluminescence Bioluminescence Marine animals Pelagic fishes |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3318902 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | ©1999 Kluwer Academic Publishers | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
