Luminescence is a thing which it feels like we still have a lot to learn about.

The first reference I saw was this sheet:

From which I concluded that luminessence and luminescence are homophones. We have two distinct nouns:

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Hello Pippsqueaks. It’s your favourite princess here. I’m taking over Pineta’s blog this week.

This time I won’t be talking about my new songs or hot news from the palace. You can find that on my usual channel. Today I’m going to talk about the sparkling science of luminescence.

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There are three types of story you can get from a physicist about Las Vegas. The first, although not strictly speaking of the city itself, is that of the Nevada Test Site—the arena where, in the 1950s, the nuclear era came of age, and theories of thermonuclear fission and fusion were put to the experimental test. [Question to ponder: what type of cloud is Las Pegasus built on?]

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