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Radium

Radioluminescent watch face lit here with UV light. The phosphor no longer is bright enough to see with the Radium.

This 1930’s watch face had radium painted numerals to permanently glow in the dark. It has long stopped being visible as the phosphor degenerated. Strong UV light can still light it up but not as much as a bag of similar phosphor (activated zinc sulphide) shown here.
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Phosphorescence

Phoshorescent sheet with shadow of bicycle. PhosphorescencePhosphorescence silhouette “photos” can be taken with a camera flash due to persistence of the image.
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