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In previous communications1 I have discussed what I called ‘the reversibility of fluorescence by annealing’ which I attributed in the case of chemicals and some pulverized minerals (anhydrite, desmine, colemanite) to adsorbed water, and in the case of the feldspars, which I studied in the form of larger pieces, to contamination by contact with the skin of the hand.
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PRZIBRAM, K. Fluorescence of Adsorbed Water. Nature 182, 520 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182520a0
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