3PM To Use a Completely Hypothetical Example.

Professor: So, you know how if you feed your sister-in-law's kid a lot of sugar and caffeine, and he gets all crazy-like and runs around screaming? Well, that's like exciting the molecule. And after a while, the excitement dies down, and he hits something. Like a wall. And if you're lucky, he vomits. Fluorescence is the vomit of molecule excitation.

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