Sentence examples for gave off light from inspiring English sources
In 1895, while experimenting with electric current flow in a partially evacuated glass tube (cathode-ray tube), Röntgen observed that a nearby piece of barium platinocyanide gave off light when the tube was in operation.
But the early bulbs came with "you can't be serious" price tags (as in $40 for a 60-watt bulb) and gave off light that was as soft and warm as a granite quarry in January.
Anything That Gives Off Light runs at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre from 16-26 August.
The show they are rehearsing is a collaboration with the National Theatre of Scotland, Anything That Gives Off Light, which aims to draw a direct line from the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment to the ones on which America was founded.
Nearly five years in the making, Anything That Gives Off Light was originally due to coincide with the Scottish Independence referendum of 2014 – a time, says co-director Davey Anderson, when "what it meant to be Scottish was up for grabs".
Such matter does not absorb or give off light, and is extremely difficult to detect.
Astronomers have dubbed the remaining 85% "dark matter", because it neither absorbs nor gives off light.
When high-energy x-rays hit an object, the atoms in the material create "fluorescence" and give off light.
