Phosphorescent vs Candescent - What's the difference?
phosphorescent | candescent |
Having the property of emitting light for a period of time after the source of excitation is taken away, e.g., in electrostatic storage tubes and cathode-ray tubes.
* 1961 , William S. Burroughs, The Soft Machine , page 11
As adjectives the difference between phosphorescent and candescent
is that phosphorescent is having the property of emitting light for a period of time after the source of excitation is taken away, eg, in electrostatic storage tubes and cathode-ray tubes while candescent is glowing with heat; white-hot, incandescent.As a noun phosphorescent
is a phosphorescent substance.phosphorescent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- So he imports this special breed of scorpions and feeds them on metal meal and the scorpions turned a phosphorescent blue color and sort of hummed.