[f. Gr. τρίβος rubbing + LUMINESCENCE.] The quality of emitting light under friction or violent pressure.
1889. Philos. Mag., Sept., 151. According to the mode of excitation I distinguish Photo-, Electro-, Chemi-, and Triboluminescence.
1899. Nature, 27 April, 618/1. The name triboluminescence has been applied by E. Wiedemann to an emission of light not due to rise of temperature which occurs on crushing certain substances. Ibid., 619/1. Crystals of saccharin which, when freshly prepared, flash brilliantly on crushing … after a few weeks’ preservation show no appreciable triboluminescence.
Hence Triboluminescent a., exhibiting triboluminescence.
1899. Jrnl. Chem. Soc., LXXVI. 719. Two optical isomerides which are antipodes show the same behaviour as regards triboluminescence.
1904. W. G. Levison, in Science, 27 May, 827/2. A zinc-blende from Utah … was the most intense tribo-luminescent substance … yet investigated.
