birefringence

Examples

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• After the amyloid deposits were treated with KMnO4, they retained their green birefringence under polarized light.

  Academic text (2004)

• Congo red binding and green birefringence under polarized light

  Academic text (2004)

• Otherwise known as the birefringence, an optical phenomenon caused by the light and...

  Shortcut (2020)

• Stern recalled that the birefringence question was raised at a seminar.

  Academic text (2003)

• Likewise, the lack of magnetic birefringence became a more insistent puzzle.

  Academic text (2003)

• D: Polarized light microscopy reveals the typical green birefringence of the amyloid deposits (arrows).

  Academic text (2004)

• The Congo-red-stained deposits reflected a green birefringence under polarized light, thus revealing the specimen's amyloid nature (Figure 1, C and D).

  Academic text (2004)

• The absorption, index homogeneity, and stress birefringence target values at 157 nm are the same as for optical materials at 193 nm.

  Academic text (2001)

• Birefringence measurements have indicated a reorganization of the extracellular matrix components into a structure with greater alignment and more intense molecular packing, accompanied by an increase in tensile strength (68).

  Academic text (1995)

• The best-known example of birefringence is the polarized double images that are seen when a printed page is viewed through a transparent crystal of calcite.

Synonyms

D

double refraction

vsbirefringence

• Specialized

8.6

A beam of light that splits into two rays that vibrate at right angles in some crystals

is the more formal scientific term for the same optical effect

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology