1) Pleochroism
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1) Variegation
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Dichroism has two related but distinct meanings in optics. A dichroic material is either one which causes visible light to be split up into distinct beams of different wavelengths (colours) (not to be confused with dispersion), or one in which light rays having different polarizations are absorbed by different amounts. The original meaning of dich...
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differential selective absorption seen in some doubly refractive gemstones when viewed in different crytallographic directions
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• (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.
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The property of doubly refractive colored gemstones of transmitting two different colors in two different directions caused by their unequal absorption of the two portions of a doubly refracted beam of light.
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(from the article `photoreception`) Variation in the colour of light absorbed dependent on the direction of polarization of the light is termed dichroism. This property is a sensitive ... ...`more,` and chrs, `colour`), in optics, the selective absorption in crystals of light vibrating in different planes. Pleochrois...
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Synonym for circular dichroism ... <chemistry> Differential absorption of right hand and left hand circularly polarized light resulting from molecular asymmetry involving a chromophore group. Circular dichroism is used to study the conformation of proteins in solution. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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(di´kro-iz-әm) the quality or condition of showing one color in reflected and another in transmitted light. adj., dichro´ic., adj.
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The transmission of two different colors in twodifferent optical planes as light passes through a gemstone. Maybe used as a method of distinguishing one type of gemstone fromanother.
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See circular dichroism.
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Di'chro·ism noun [ Greek ... two- colored;
di- =
di`s- twice + ... color.]
(Opt.) 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.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: dī′krō-izm Definitions: 1. The property of seeming to be differently colored when viewed from emitted light and from transmitted light.
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The luminous property that some minerals and gemostones have, whereby they appear to have more than one colour particularly when viewed from different angles. Also known as colour change
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n] - pleochroism of a crystal so that it exhibits two different colors when viewed from two different directions
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noun pleochroism of a crystal so that it exhibits two different colors when viewed from two different directions
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pleochroism of a uniaxial crystal such that it exhibits two different colors when viewed from two different directions under transmitted light. · the exhibition of essentially different colors by certain solutions in different degrees of dilution or concentration.
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