Vincenzo Cascariolo
fl. early 1600s
Italian alchemist who created the first synthetically luminiscent material (c. 1603). A cobbler by profession in Bologna, Cascariolo heated a mixture of barium sulf...
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Phosphorescence
Phosphorescence is the extended emission of electromagnetic radiation (light) following excitation or the emission of light without the production of significant heat (e.g., in the bio...
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Vincenzo Cascariolo
Phosphorescence