List of light sources

Lightning

This is a list of sources of light, including both natural and artificial processes that emit light. This article focus on source of wavelengths from about 390 to 700 nanometres that called visible light , as opposed to objects such as the Moon that provide light by reflection.

Electric discharge

Incandescence

Main article: Incandescence

Combustion

Main article: Combustion

Lamps

Other

Nuclear and high-energy particle

Main article: Nuclear physics
Main article: Particle physics

Celestial and atmospheric

Nebula and stars
Starry sky, the Milky Way, and a shooting star
Main article: Astronomical object

Luminescence

Main article: Luminescence

Luminescence is emission of light by a substance not resulting from heat.

Chemiluminescence

Main article: Chemiluminescence

Chemiluminescence is light resulting from a chemical reaction.

Bioluminescence

Main article: Bioluminescence

Bioluminescence is light resulting from biochemical reaction by a living organism.

Electrochemiluminescence

Electrochemiluminescence is light resulting from electrochemical reaction.

Crystalloluminescence

Main article: Crystalloluminescence

Crystalloluminescence is light produced during crystallization.

Electroluminescence

Main article: Electroluminescence

Electroluminescence is light resulting of an electric current passed through a substance.

Cathodoluminescence

Main article: Cathodoluminescence

Cathodoluminescence is light resulting from a luminescent material being struck by the electrons.

Mechanoluminescence

Main article: Luminescence

Mechanoluminescence is light resulting from a mechanical action on a solid.

Triboluminescence, a type of mechanoluminescence, is light generated when bonds in a material are broken when that material is scratched, crushed, or rubbed.

Fractoluminescence, a type of mechanoluminescence, is light generated when bonds in certain crystals are broken by fractures.

Piezoluminescence, a type of mechanoluminescence, is light produced by the action of pressure on certain solids.

Sonoluminescence, a type of mechanoluminescence, is light resulting from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound.

Photoluminescence

Main article: Photoluminescence

Photoluminescence is light resulting from absorption of photons.

Fluorescence, a type of photoluminescence, is the emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation.

Unlike fluorescence, a phosphorescent material does not immediately re-emit the radiation it absorbs.

Radioluminescence

Radioluminescent
Main article: Radioluminescence

Radioluminescence is light resulting from bombardment by ionizing radiation.

Thermoluminescence

Main article: Thermoluminescence

Thermoluminescence is light from the re-emission of absorbed energy when a substance is heated.

Cryoluminescence

Cryoluminescence is the emission of light when an object is cooled.

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