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LUMINESCENCE

t is hard to believe it now, but back in the day, you’d have to be rather wealthy just to be able to tell the time in the dark. You see, before the advent of watches with glow-in-the-dark hands and markers, watchmakers devised chiming pocket watches for rich people to audibly ascertain the time (okay, a candle could also do nicely, but we digress). Rather remarkably, it

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