Adjective complement with noun phrase

• wear: Wear something fluorescent during the day or reflective at night.

Adjective modifier

• compact: Compact Fluorescent an energy-efficient, long-lasting substitute for incandescent lamps.

Modifies a noun

• tube: The total mercury content from fluorescent tubes put into landfill each year in the UK is around 3 tons.

• lamp: Plus, the fluorescent lamps are cheaper to run than filament bulbs.

• dye: The cells were stained with a fluorescent dye that binds to DNA.

• lighting: Q Do lupus patients have fluorescent tube lighting or VDU allergy?

• bulb: Benefit: The installation of low energy compact fluorescent bulbs, which use less than 25 % of the energy of regular tungsten bulbs.

• probe: We study intracellular barriers by using novel fluorescent probes.

Used with adjective complement

• become: These cells were engineered so that they became fluorescent if the insulin gene was switched on.

• place: Quot brand of placing fluorescent the atom by ultra violet.

• use: DNA profiling using fluorescent multiplexing is already widely used in human forensics.

Modifying Another Word

• almost: This is the real McCoy; pulpy and almost fluorescent orange.

• highly: A small display, or just showing one or two highly fluorescent examples, may astound them!

• intrinsically: New genetic techniques allow the precise decoration of tissues or sub-cellular compartments with intrinsically fluorescent proteins.

• not: That is to say that the film is designed to be used under artificial lighting ( not fluorescent ).

• brightly: The results were the same: Cells containing mutant CFTR proteins also formed aggregates and became brightly fluorescent.

Preposition: in

• hybridisation: All four euchromatic gaps were sized by fluorescent in situ hybridisation ( FISH ) of clones immediately flanking each gap to extended DNA fibers.

• hybridization: Taking this into account, we designed BAC and PCR probes to use in fluorescent in situ hybridization ( FISH ) experiments.

• violation: One chip signed fluorescent in violation this was not.

Preposition: for

• day: Remember also to wear bright clothing so that others will see you - fluorescent for day, reflective at night.