Strange phosphorescence

[Zom-B]

Why does my pink marker phosphoresce fluoresce (is that the right word?) with GREEN light instead of ultra violet? I've never seen anything like this and I thought I've seen quite a lot.


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[nikokapo]

is it really phosphorescing? (dont see it orange)

hey what did u do to power that dx 50 with a power supply?

 

[Switch]

Can't really tell from the pic but it's probably just fluorescence.Phosphorescence is glow in the dark kinda stuff

Some things fluoresce under green light too.The wavelength of the light emitted through fluorescence is always greater than the light causing it because there's an energy loss(longer wave photons have less energy).In your case green is used and orange is emitted(orange has longer wave than green , you see).Some stuff also works with blue, of course the shorter the wave , the more things fluoresce, so violet light works even better.Ultraviolet , especially shortwave, causes the most things to fluoresce.Some stuff even does this under red light, of course , the wavelength emitted is greater than the one causing it, and any longer than red and you have infrared, which is not really spectacular with the naked eye.

 

[Zom-B]

is it really phosphorescing? (dont see it orange)

hey what did u do to power that dx 50 with a power supply?

I put the battery cap of a 1/2" laser pointer and it almost fits (stuck in place by cross-threading). There is a hole in the back of the cap for the wires.

it's phosphorescing fluorescing all wavelengths between deep red and ~550nm yellow/green (seen through a CDROM spectrograph) I guess it's something like this sketch:

[edit] The actual yellow is more orangy than my original picture suggest. More like this: [ch9608][ch9608][ch9608][ch9608][ch9608][ch9608]

 

[Zom-B]

Can't really tell from the pic but it's probably just fluorescence.Phosphorescence is glow in the dark kinda stuff

Ah that's what I mean. I thought this was just the Dutch word as I have never seen anyone using it in English until now.

 

[Switch]

Well I guess fluorescence isn't monochromatic
English speakers use the glow-in-the-dark term rather than phosphorescence since it's shorter and easier yo understand I guess ;D
Other people posted pictures and videos of this too.For some reason many of them on a big, orange Tide jug.

 

[Snytbaggen]

So here I create a thread dealing with fluorescence in the green lasers section only to get it answered in a different thread 10 minutes later

The same thing happened to me, but with an orange sticker instead of a pink marker. The weird thing is that a bit of the sticker was overlapped by clear tape, and that made it red instead of orange/yellow