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Pleochroism   Listen
noun
Pleochroism  n.  (Crystallog.) The property possessed by some crystals, of showing different colors when viewed in the direction of different axes.





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"Pleochroism" Quotes from Famous Books



... Iceland-spar is seen double, hence the name doubly-refracting spar. Iceland-spar is extensively used in the construction of Nicol's prisms for polariscopes, polarizing microscopes and saccharimeters, and of dichroscopes for testing the pleochroism ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 - "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" • Various


Words linked to "Pleochroism" :   trichroism, optical phenomenon, dichroism


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