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by nkurz 2799 days ago
Thanks, I hadn't known about this effect. Apparently it's been known for a long time. In the 1600's, Robert Boyle claimed to have been able to read an issue of The Philosophical Transactions by the light of a rotting Neck of Veal: https://blogs.royalsociety.org/publishing/boyle-and-biolumin...