Definition of Birefringences

1. birefringence [n] - See also: birefringence

Lexicographical Neighbors of Birefringences

birdwatch
birdwatched
birdwatcher
birdwatchers
birdwatches
birdwatching
birdwing
birdwings
birdwoman
birdwomen
birdy
birectangular
bireflectance
bireflectances
birefringence
birefringences (current term)
birefringent
birefringently
bireme
biremes
biretta
biretta'd
birettaed
birettas
birhythmic
birhythmicity
biriani
birianis
birimbao
biringuccite

Literary usage of Birefringences

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1918)
"... which [A/(»2—»i)l are shown in millionths of 1 Cf. Newton's scale, Arts. 276-277. s Art. 301. The colored plate of birefringences, originally given by ..."

2. The Microscopic Determination of the Nonopaque Minerals by Esper Signius Larsen (1921)
"TABLES. TABLE 6.—List of minerals arranged according to their intermediate indices of refraction, в, and showing their birefringences. ..."

3. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"Five tables record observed critical angles and the corresponding ns and birefringences, and the dispersion of the optic axial angle. ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1919)
"... plane-polarized light for £ = 45° and for different refractive indices and birefringences are listed in Table 4 and are presented graphically in Fig. 3. ..."

5. Technical Digest edited by G. W. Day, D. L. Franzen, P. A. Williams (1999)
"Therefore, phase and group birefringences are equal. The domain of validity of these assumptions shall set the wavelength range in which the DGD remains ..."

6. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1900)
"... .0049 .0031 .0080 Carlton peak, Minn Ab,An. .0046 .0036 .0082 It will be seen that the difference between the partial birefringences is much less ..."

7. The Methods of Petrographic-microscopic Research, Their Relative Accuracy by Frederic Eugene Wright (1911)
"... *An average of the birefringences of the 118 minerals listed under birefringence on pp. 292-295 of Rosen- busch-Wulfing gives 0.040 as the mean value, ..."

8. Elements of Mineralogy, Crystallography and Blowpipe Analysis: From a by Alfred Joseph Moses, Charles Lathrop Parsons (1916)
"The terms of color, and the equivalent birefringences for a thickness 0.035 mm., and the detail, or effect, of the test-plates may be stated as follows: ..."

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