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Refrangible   Listen
adjective
Refrangible  adj.  Capable of being refracted, or turned out of a direct course, in passing from one medium to another, as rays of light.






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"Refrangible" Quotes from Famous Books



... bromide of potassium, was then dwelt upon with experimental demonstration. It was shown that the merest trace of soluble haloid would reverse an image by the extraction of bromine from it, and the fact that the most refrangible part of the spectrum was principally efficacious in completing this action showed how necessary it was to avoid falling into error when analyzing photographic action by the spectroscope. A reference was next made to gelatine plates, in which, owing to their ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 • Various



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