1866 (implied in fluoresced), back-formation from fluorescence. Related: Fluorescing.
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fluorescence n.
1852, "property of glowing in ultraviolet light," coined by English mathematician and physicist Sir George G. Stokes (1819-1903) from fluorspar (see fluorine), because in it he first noticed the phenomenon, + -escence, on analogy of phosphorescence.