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By placing a substance between two Nicol prisms and rotating one, the angle of optical rotation could be easily measured.
It is also used in optical instrument such as polarizing microscopes and Nicol prisms.
Today, Nicol prisms are still very expensive, bulky and of limited aperture.
While the majority of buildings were more or less rectangular prisms, this building looked more like the Senate Chamber in Denivan City.
Hornblende forms elongate prisms that define a lineation together with plagioclase.
Morphine is an amphoteric pentacyclic alkaloid that exists naturally in its levorotatory form as columnar colorless prisms.
The Nicol prism is made up from two prisms of calcite cemented with Canada balsam.
Plastic spectacle prisms, based on the same principle, are invaluable orthoptic aids to therapy.
Most zircons are sharp-faceted, euhedral and elongate prisms, and minor amounts are transparent, pale brown, anhedral and rounded crystals.
They feature fully multi-coated lenses and L-coated prisms, twist-up eyecups and are completely waterproof and have shock-absorbing rubber armor.
You can readily extend the same approach to other polyhedra, such as prisms and antiprisms.
Gadolinite typically occurs as long slender prisms with pyramidal terminations and diamond-shaped cross sections.
He goes on to consider solid geometry giving results on prisms, cylinders, and spheres.
Volumes of solids such as prisms, pyramids, tetrahedrons, wedges, cylinders and truncated cones are calculated.
The earliest monochromators were prisms, but these gave way to diffraction gratings, flat plates etched with very finely spaced parallel lines.
It is possible to turn the prisms so that they direct a light ray to the sensor.
This cunning cream is embedded with micro prisms that refract light away from wrinkles.
In the optical glass industry, flint glass is any highly refractive lead-containing glass used to make lenses and prisms.
Snow crystals occur in forms ranging from prisms to needles to dendrites with delicate branches.
His experiments with sunlight and glass prisms and mirrors helped him understand the origin of colours and create a new kind of telescope.
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At a red hot heat this oxide fuses, and on cooling, crystallises in rhombic prisms.
Its rays pass through prisms formed so as to refract impinging light into desired paths with but little loss.
The nepheline is in small six-sized prisms, and usually cannot be detected with the unaided eye.
I owe no thanks to Mrs. Whitney, with her prunes and her prisms and her penny-pinchings.
For this purpose, the polariscope prisms should be of large size, and both mounted in revolving settings.
The sulphocarbolate of magnesium crystallises in large, clear, rhombic prisms, easily soluble in water.
Combined hyper-radial and first-order light with back prisms in white and mirrors in red.
Reflection from an excess of horizontal prisms gives rise to a vertical circle passing through the sun.
The achromatism of prisms depends upon the same principles, and it is effected in the same way as that of lenses.
Black soluble prisms, formed by decomposing silver permanganate by means of barium chloride, and cautiously evaporating.
The potash salt crystallizes in quadrilateral prisms, needles or plates, and is not deliquescent.
The crystals of this salt, which are obtained with difficulty, are right rhombic prisms, and are deliquescent.
The bicarbonate is in colourless prisms, which have a saline, feebly alkaline taste, and are not deliquescent.
Between these two prisms, however, is a solution of chemicals which will depolarize the light and allow it to continue.
The crystals of citric acid are oblique prisms with four faces, terminated by dihedral summits, inclined at acute angles.
The dispersive power upon the spectrum may be much increased by using several prisms instead of one.
It is desirable to use both methods of investigation, that with the stereoscope as well as prisms, as each test has its own value.
A silicate of zirconium usually crystallized in the tetragonal system as simple four-sided prisms capped by four-sided pyramids.
Often they were supplemented with candelabra of bronze or brass, tricked out with tinkly pendant prisms.
We can melt down this Arran earth and reproduce the pyramids and prisms in endless numbers.
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