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Light is usually associated with heat. All solids begin to glow at 525° C. But many other agencies besides heat can produce light-rubbing, fracture, pounding, excitation by electricity or short-wave radiation, etc. Surgeon's tape emits a greenish glow when stripped from a roll. Lumps of sugar luminesce when rubbed together. Quartz pebbles shine when struck by a hammer...
...cave's entrance resembled a monstrous mouth. Foul, fishy smells oozed from its eerie, greenish interior. Faint scrapings, squeals, slimy drippings could be heard far down in its inky bowels. Author Sanderson went cautiously inside. Clusters of giant grey bats whirred out of potholes. Crabs the size of footballs, their eyes bugging like periscopes, squatted on the floor, waved huge pincers, hissed like snakes. A luminescent lizard slithered into a dark crevice. An enormous red rat nudged his foot. Giant spider-centipedes scuttled across his hands. Blood-sucking vampire bats gnashed from black ledges...
Buck picked the site for his university (on Durham's outskirts), decided its architecture should be Gothic, even selected the stone for its buildings, a greenish-grey rock quarried in nearby Hillsboro, which he chose because it resembled Princeton's building stone. Buck directed that the campus should be dominated by a great Gothic chapel. When he saw the architect's plans, he ordered them changed, the 210-ft. tower moved to a commanding position in front...
...witness, a brunette, Senta de Wanger, appeared in a greenish-gray sport jacket, green skirt, green hat. Miss de Wanger runs a liquor store at Hempstead, N. Y., near the Air Corps' Mitchel Field, L. I. She was sought out by absentee William Lonkowski, one of the few who was portrayed as a spy capable of digging out worthwhile information. To him and his wife German-born Senta rented part of her quarters...
...telescope fish's gall bladder is a greenish globule one-twelfth of an inch in diameter (visible as a disk about the size of the fish's eye but not so dark-see cut}. Dr. Viehoever found that soon after he injected the most trifling amount of the hormones secretin and cholecystokinin into the fish's tail, the gall bladder contracted, and squeezed its green bile into the intestines. This is what human gall bladders normally do during digestion, what they cannot do when obstructed by gallstones or mucus plugs...