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