Glow in the Dark Toys and Stinkers

Glow in the dark toys and stinkers all use the same material. Is it related to phosphor yet? Well, something which is a phosphor is anything which is either florescent or phosphorescent. It's called florescence if you just absorb and immediately reemit nd, it's called phosphorescence. And so it's phosphorescence that makes like, the hands on your watch glow, or your little plastic toy glow, or whatever. Anything that needs to be charged by sunlight is phosphorescence. Can it trap energy in other ways, or only through sunlight? I can i stick it into micr and then it'll glow? Or rub it really hard, or put