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birefringence
birefringence
See also: biréfringence
English
Noun
Birefringence property of a calcite crystal.
birefringence (plural birefringences)
- (physics) the splitting of a ray of light into two parallel rays of perpendicular polarization by passage through an optically anisotropic medium
Synonyms
- double refraction
Related terms
- trirefringence
Translations
the splitting of a ray of light into two parallel rays of perpendicular polarization by passage through an optically anisotropic medium
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