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Collection of various fluorescent minerals under ultraviolet UV-A, UV-B and UV-C light. Chemicals in the rocks absorb the ultraviolet light and emit visible light of various colors, a process called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fluorescence" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:fluorescence">fluorescence</a>.

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current09:02, 3 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 09:02, 3 January 20172,560 × 1,650 (533 KB)127.0.0.1 (talk)Collection of various fluorescent minerals under ultraviolet UV-A, UV-B and UV-C light. Chemicals in the rocks absorb the ultraviolet light and emit visible light of various colors, a process called <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fluorescence" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:fluorescence">fluorescence</a></i>.
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