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SUBJECT INDEX 



Facilitation, neural, 301-304, 311- 



313 

 FAD, effect on, bact. luminescence 



in vitro, 212-213, 223 

 Fatigue, of luminescence, 303, 320, 



323 

 Firefly flash, 5, 20, 180-182, 184, 

 194-195, 310, 325, 328-331, 

 361-363 

 Firefly flashing, synchronous, 20, 



361-363 

 Firefly luciferin, 130; see also Lucif- 



erin, firefly 

 Firefly luminescence 



acetylcholine in, 194, 330 

 activation energy, 167 

 ATP relations in, 162, 164, 165, 

 168, 170-173, 175-181, 186- 

 197, 263 

 control of, 194-196, 310, 316, 



325, 328-332 

 eflect of, azide, 168 

 beryllium, 178 

 calcium, 168, 178 

 p-chloromercuribenzoic acid, 



168 

 copper, 178 

 cyanide, 168 

 emission spectrum, 163 

 fluoride, 168, 186 

 oxygen tension, 182-186, 195- 



196, 310, 325, 329-331 

 temperature, 167 

 flash, in vitro, 180-182, 184 

 intermediary reactions, 181, 194- 



197 

 mechanism of, 196-197 

 pH optimum, 166, 167 

 reaction scheme, 194 

 relation to pyrophosphate, 186- 



195 

 relation to triphosphate, 168, 172, 

 177, 179, 180-182, 186, 191- 

 195 

 role of Mg, 162, 170-175, 178, 

 180, 181, 186, 188, 193, 194 

 Firefly, luminescent system, 127. 

 162 



Flash of luminescence, in 

 Beroe, 304, 305 

 Gonyaulax, 416 

 snails, 351 

 Flavins, in 



bioluminescence, 11 

 in bacterial luminescence, 130, 

 210-216, 223-232, 234-237, 

 241-243, 258-262, 284, 288- 

 290 

 Flicker, luminescent, 350 

 Florads, 338 



Florida, 399, 400, 404, 408 

 Flow method, in luminol reaction, 



81-82 

 Fluorescence 



action spectrum for excitation, 67- 



68 

 distinction from phosphorescence, 



44-45 

 effect of incident intensity, 71 

 intrinsic quantum yield, 29 

 lifetime, 44-45 



mirror image of absorption, 100 

 relation to chemiluminescence, 



100-108 

 relation to electronic states, 26, 

 27 

 Fluorescence excitation, wave length 



effectiveness, 70-71 

 Fluorescence of 



bacterial luciferin, 8 

 chlorophyll 



magnesium role, 33 

 relation to solvent, 32 

 ctenophore organs, 8 

 Cypridina luciferin, 8, 134-136, 



138, 146-149, 153 

 DPD's, 93, 107 

 earthworm lymph, 8 

 firefly luciferin, 8, 165-166, 200- 



201 

 hematoporphyrin, 9 

 luminol, 85 



luminous organisms, 16-21 

 luminous organs, 8, 16-21 

 lymph, earthworm, 8 

 Mg phthallocyanines, 37 



