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Definition of Dichroism
1. Noun. Pleochroism of a crystal so that it exhibits two different colors when viewed from two different directions.
Definition of Dichroism
1. n. The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes.
Definition of Dichroism
1. Noun. the property of some crystals of transmitting different colours of light in different directions ¹
2. Noun. (physics) the property of some anisotropic materials of having different absorption coefficients for light polarized in different directions; circular dichroism ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dichroism
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Literary usage of Dichroism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of Mineralogy: Comprising the Most Recent Discoveries: Including by James Dwight Dana (1854)
"dichroism, Pleochroism.-—Some crystals, viewed by transmitted light, present
different ... dichroism is thus detected by looking in but one direction, ..."
2. Treatise on Optics by David Brewster, Alexander Dallas Bache (1854)
"IF a crystallized body has a different color in different directions when common
light is transmitted through its substance, it is said to possess dichroism ..."
3. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1918)
"CHAPTER XXI EXAMINATION BY PLANE POLARIZED LIGHT ABSORPTION, dichroism, PLEOCHROISM
263 ... This property of crystals is called pleochroism (or dichroism'}, ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"Circular dichroism in Natural Rotary Solutions. DB BRACE and WP MCDOWELL, University
of Nebraska. Electric Double Refraction in Liquids Under Low Electric ..."
5. A System of Mineralogy: Including an Extended Treatise on Crystallography by James Dwight Dana (1837)
"A surface possesses the -steel tarnish, when it presents the superficial blue
color of tempered steel. Ex. Columbite. dichroism. Some crystals viewed by ..."
6. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"The solution obtained from the racemic compound showed no detectable circular
dichroism attributable to the m-[Co(en)2Cl2]ClO4 complex, ..."
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