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I'm curious to know if biologists, chemists, and physicists have different words for the same thing? I wonder if physicists have their own word for what chemists call chemiluminescence and fluorescence. Like, what do physicists call the concept behind glow-in-the-dark toys? If inorganic semiconductors do fluorescence, we all call them quantum dots. 67.165.185.178 ( talk) 14:27, 3 November 2021 (UTC).
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I'm curious to know if biologists, chemists, and physicists have different words for the same thing? I wonder if physicists have their own word for what chemists call chemiluminescence and fluorescence. Like, what do physicists call the concept behind glow-in-the-dark toys? If inorganic semiconductors do fluorescence, we all call them quantum dots. 67.165.185.178 ( talk) 14:27, 3 November 2021 (UTC).