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Definition of Prisms
1. prism [n] - See also: prism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prisms
Literary usage of Prisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"for a few min. at room temp.; o-nitroanilide, pale yellow prisms, m. ...
faintly yellow prisms, m. 164°; p-nitroanilide, faintly yellow plates, m. ..."
2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1872)
"The diagram represents my automatic spectroscope, so made that any number of
prisms from I to 6 may be used at pleasure ; and as the ray is reversed, ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1871)
"AS In spectroscopes of ordinary construction, when several prisms are employed,
a grent deficiency of light will be noticed towards the more ..."
4. The Elements of Euclid: Viz. the First Six Books, Together with the Eleventh by Euclid, Robert Simson (1821)
"Therefore, componendo; as the prisms ... so are the two prisms in the pyramid
ABCG to the two prisms in the pyramid DEFH: and likewise if the pyramids now ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The prisms, which arc right-angled and made of the same Hint glass, arc mounted
in a hinged frame such that the lower prism, which is used for purposes of ..."
6. An Introduction to the Theory of Optics by Sir Arthur Schuster (1904)
"The superiority of gratings over prisms as regards resolving power is shown by
... To produce with prisms a spectroscope of resolving power equal to that of ..."
7. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1915)
"derivative forms prisms, m. 97 ", and is non- toxic; ... prisms, m. 227°; these
3 compds. may also be prepd. in poor yield by condensing CO(NH2)2 with (A). ..."
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