Limelights

Luminescence. Limestone possesses only limited luminescent qualities, ranging from very faint or none with the impure types. However, quicklime is very luminescent at calcining temperatures, hence the term limelight. 

Vibrations and simple excitations flames, lamps, carbon arc, limelight... 

Real or gray bodies deviate from these ideal blackbody values by the A-dependent emissivity, but the color sequence remains essentially the same. This mechanism explains the color of incandescent light sources such as flames in a candle, tungsten filament light bulb, flash bulb, carbon arc, limelight, lightning in part, and the incandescent part of pyrotechnics (qv). 

Solid waste disposal has been in the limelight and will continue to be a political, emotional, and technical... 

Both enzymes have been continuously in the limelight of interest, as attested by thousands of reports and dozens of recent review articles on their structure and mechanism of action. Less is known about the regulation of the activity of the two enzymes under physiological conditions [2,3,35-38] and about the control of their rate of synthesis and degradation that adjusts their concentration to the physiological requirements [39-41]. 

The selenium species that are drawing most attention are Se(IV) and Se(VI) in water and sediments, and the biomethylated products (dimethylselenide and dimethyldi-selenide) that are spread into the environment (Camara et al. 1995). Se-species in food (including Se-cysteine and other species in yeast) are in the limelight (Crews 1998) because of their beneficial effect on human health and their increasing use as nutraceuticals. 

Di Marzo V. 2-Arachidonyl-glycerol as an endocannabinoid limelight for a formerly neglected metabolite. Biochem (Moscow) 1998 63 13-21. 

We often use the expression in the limelight to characterize someone at the center of attention. Theatrical production in the mid-nineteenth century created limelight through a chemical reaction to illuminate the stage and assist theater-goers in viewing the star performers. 

Limelights were a lighting system invented by the British engineer Captain Thomas Drummond in 1816 to use for surveying purposes. These novel lighting systems... 

The chemistry of calcium oxide limits the lifetime of the limelight. Exposure at ordinary temperatures to water moisture and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere... 

The Limelight. Tulsa Stage Employees, IATSE Local 354, http //www.iatse354.com/354/354html/limelight.htm... 

A trial that might help put an end to war someday shouldn t have degenerated into a quarrel about a man-of-title who had scrubbed floors. Nor should floor-scrubbing have yielded the limelight, within two weeks, to a bitter argument whether I.G. Farbenindustrie was "entirely free of government planning."... 

PVC and chlorine are still targets for environmental action. While there may be other targets for the environmental activists, such as GM foods in Europe, chlorine and PVC are still in the limelight for attacks on all fronts. No reason is predicted in the... 

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