Talk:Thermoluminescence

message: searching thermoluminescent curves (images) at a search engine I noticed that they do studies of genetic variations of plants that have chlorophyll that thermoluminesces at 0 to 20 degrees C.  I think organic thermoluminescence should be a part of the article.  I was looking to find the lowest temperature nonorganic material.  do you think a phosphorescent typical material like strontium aluminate or zinc if made a part of chlorophyll could create customized high brightness thermoluminescent materials at below body temperatures?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.185.2.34 (talk) 18:35, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Organic chemical thermoluminescence

message: I don't think nuclear energy can be released by the heating of something. One definition I have is: Thermoluminescence is a result of high energy electrons trapped within the specimen. Heat frees the electrons, which produce light much like fluorescence. Another I have is: A phenomenon in which certain minerals release previously absorbed radiation upon being moderately heated.
 By assuming both of these are true, I can deduce that the most possible explanation of this phenomenon is that: "a mineral is exposed to UV radiation, and its electrons are excited into a higher orbit, on which it stays until heat makes the molecules vibrate, causing the electrons to fall to a lower orbit and release the previously acquired energy as visible light."
 No nuclear energy. Besides, you´d have to bombard the material with neutrons to get any nuclear energy out of if (besides that it´d have to be unstable).
 Please correct me if I'm wrong on anything.Slartibartfast1992 00:57, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah.. so.... what happens is that when the molecules absorb the energy (be it from UV light or heat) the electrons in the valence (outer) shell of the molecule get all excited and bounce out to one higher level.  Eventually (not really that long) the electrons lose that energy and fall back into the right valence shell they should be in.  As they do this the energy they lost is released as a photon of light.  I am not sure where people brought in nuclear energy but that is where a single atom is split to produce 2 atoms of 1 or 2 different elements.  This releases a great deal of energy and Uranium  is the commonly associated element used for nuclear energy.  If there's a physicist out there... please verify or correct me on this but that is my understanding of how it works. 205.56.129.195 09:03, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  No, that's just fluorescence. Thermoluminescence works more or less the same way, only it holds onto the energy and only releases it when exposed to heat. How it holds onto the energy is what needs to be explained in the article, and why we need an expert on the subject. Slartibartfast1992 17:06, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition 

message: Both here and in Thermoluminescence_dating are a number of references to the work of "Ķeizars, Z et al." which don't seem to be of too much importance to the field of TL. I recommend that someone may remove this in the next edit of any of these two articles. Thank you. BM 24.34.207.168 (talk) 22:58, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference to the work of Keizars et al. 

message: YAG1; AsG; (Ir) – what do these abbreviations mean? Gy – probably gray (unit)? Д.Ильин (talk) 13:19, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abbreviations in the last picture