Meaning & use
triboluminescence
The emission of light produced when certain crystals are crushed, rubbed, or otherwise mechanically stressed.
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Breaking a wintergreen candy in the dark reveals a flash of triboluminescence.
Geologists demonstrated triboluminescence by scratching quartz crystals together in a dark room.
A note on using this word
Triboluminescence differs from fluorescence because the light comes from mechanical force, not from absorbed light.
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