But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.

Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

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I am almost inclined to coin a word and call the appearance fluorescence, from fluor-spar, as the analogous term opalescence is derived from the name of a mineral.

Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

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