Interesting Being a fan of words I wonder if the piece you quote is not quite right. If one combines the prefix fluo : to flow, pour, stream. with escence - to become Then perhaps Fluorescence - to begin stream/pour light. Just a thought Any other etymologists out there or are flow-ers more likely to be insects? Mark >>> Leonid Volkov <leonid.volkov@chus.qc.ca> 10/27/06 10:22 pm >>> Dear All, I would like to add in my lecture just a little explanation of the term «Fluorescence». But I can’t understand the etymology. Dr. G. Stokes described the phenomenon. And he invented the term. - escence - means "to become" in Latin. - Fluor - comes from the Fluorite (fluorspar), the mineral used by Dr. Stokes in his work. But what means the term? Become like Fluorite? Certainly Sir George Gabriel Stokes had a perfect knowledge of Latin, but not me. Maybe someone knows the response or can find it effortlessly in the original publication (but not in the Google.com) of 1852? Thank at advance. L. VOLKOV , Ph. D; M. D. Asst. en Cytometrie -Microscopie loc. 4867 Service commun de cytométrie et de microscopie Centre de recherches cliniques 3001, 12 av.Nord SHERBROOKE Quebec, CANADA J1H 5N4 Tel: (819) 346-1110 ext 1-4867 Fax: (819) 564-5215 Leonid Volkov <leonid.volkov@chus.qc.ca>Received on Tue Oct 31 13:18:01 2006
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