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The 14 pages that link to Phosphorescence, each with the reason it gives.

• FluorescenceCompared with: Its afterglow contrasts with fluorescence's near-immediate decay when excitation ends.

• PhotoluminescenceBroader topic: Its long-lived excited states produce emission that persists after illumination stops.

• IridescenceCompared with: Its afterglow depends on stored excitation rather than viewing-angle-dependent surface optics.

• PhosphorRelated: Some phosphors retain excitation energy and release it over time.

• Excited stateRelated: Its long delay reflects the persistence of a particular excited state.

• Quantum yieldRelated: Its yield measures how often triplet-state relaxation emits light rather than losing energy nonradiatively.

• Singlet oxygenCompared with: Oxygen’s weak emission during relaxation is a diagnostic form of phosphorescence.

• OLEDRelated: Phosphorescent emitters can harvest triplet excitons that fluorescent OLEDs lose.

• Henri BecquerelRelated: Becquerel investigated whether phosphorescent uranium salts emitted the rays that fogged his plates.

• LuminescenceBroader topic: Its long-lived emission distinguishes it from prompt fluorescence.

• Calcium sulfideRelated: Impurity-activated calcium sulfide can store excitation energy and emit light afterward.

• LuminolCompared with: Luminol’s glow is reaction-driven and short-lived, not stored optical energy.

• ScintillatorRelated: Long-lived emission can appear as afterglow and complicate timing in scintillator measurements.

• El-Sayed ruleRelated: The rule helps explain how molecules populate the triplet states that emit phosphorescent light.