Thermoluminescence "The first mention of thermoluminescence was by the famous English chemist Robert Boyle, in a paper read before the Royal Society in London in 1663. In this paper, 'About a Diamond that Shines in the Dark', Boyle reported on the glimmering light that he saw when he took a diamond to bed with him and held it on a warm part of his naked body."
Because we lacked the proper winter wear,
my parents heaped whatever was in the luggage on me: long johns, T-shirt, two pull-overs, jacket. I wore my jeans over a pair of shorts and my cheeks smarted from the crisp icy air. The cold directed me, as a torn page is blown by the wind, back into the warm thicket of empty seats in the tour bus. I cleaned up my snot Through the window, I watched a huge branch snap under yet another fall of snow. Twenty years later, a push of books off my desk reminds me of this bracing wooden crash: some minerals contain "a constant flux of energy", released as light, or thermoluminescence, when heated, the unspooling of years wound tight, or the shedding of clothes in a hotel room far from home. By Julius Li QLRS Vol. 19 No. 2 Apr 2020_____
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