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How does glow-in-the-dark stuff work?
An explanation of how glow in the dark objects get their eerie shine.
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How do glow in the dark objects work?
The Naked Scientists tackle glow in the dark objects in their weekly podcast.
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How and why do objects glow in the dark?
Physicists from the University of Illinois explain why objects glow in the dark.
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How do glow-in-the-dark stickers work?
A simple explanation of how glow in the dark stickers work.
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Triboluminescence
Short description of why sweets glow in the dark when they're crushed. Explains triboluminescence in terms of excited gases.
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Glow Discharge Optical Emission Spectroscopy and Spectrometry
Glow Discharge Spectroscopy (GDS) provides a rapid, direct bulk analysis and depth profiling analysis of solids: metals, powders, polymers, glasses and ceramics. Glow Discharge Optical Emission ...
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Wintergreen candy and other triboluminescent materials
This web page summarises the investigations of Prof Linda Sweeting into a variety of tribiluminescent materials including sugary sweets, envelopes and sticky tape. It also contains a good ...
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A Short History of the Missing Mass and Dark Energy Paradigms
The paper traces the evolution of our thinking about the density of the Universe, with emphasis on the discovery of cold dark matter.
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Dark Matter
This site gives information on cosmology in relation to the physics and study of dark matter. The site is non interactive but well cross referenced and lots of detail.
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Early History of Dark Matter
The history of the discovery of dark matter in the Universe is briefly reviewed with particular emphasis on the work of Zwicky (1933), Smith (1936), Babcock (1939) and Oort (1940).
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