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Why Scorpions Glow in UV Light?

September 18, 2016 By Janice VanCleave

Glow In the Dark Chemicals The exoskeleton of scorpions contain phosphors, which are chemical that can absorb high energy photons of  invisible UV light and emit lower energy photons of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: fluorescent, light, Physics Tagged With: black light, exoskeleton, fluorescent, fluorescent phosphor, glow in the dark, phosphor, photon, scorpion, UV light, Vaseline, visible light

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