Luminous Paint

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 742

Luminous Paint, a phosphorescent powder, such as sulphide or oxysulphide of calcium, ground up with a colourless varnish or other medium, and used as a paint. Even after daylight is over the Phosphorescence (q.v.) goes on, and the object painted remains visible in the dark. See Balmain's British patent, No. 4152 (1877).

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