| Jonathan Pereira - Microscopes - 1843 - 158 pages
...Tourmaline. The last mode of polarizing light to which I shall have occasion to allude, is by transmission through a plate of tourmaline, cut parallel to the...which Theophrastus alludes under the name of lyncurium (\vyitvpiov). It is found in various parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Much of that found... | |
| Jonathan Pereira - Light - 1843 - 200 pages
...but agrees with unpolarized light. 2. A ray of circularly polarized light is capable of transmission through a plate of tourmaline (cut parallel to the axis of the crystal), in every azimuth of the axis of the crystal. For in this case also, the circular vibrations of the... | |
| Pharmacy - 1844 - 640 pages
...but agrees with un polarized light. 2. A ray of circularly-polarized light is capable of transmission through a plate of tourmaline (cut parallel to the axis of the crystal), in every azimuth of the axis of the crystal. For in this case also, the circular vibrations of the... | |
| Jonathan Pereira - Light - 1854 - 384 pages
...— The last mode of polarizing light to which I shall have occasion to allude, is by transmission through a plate of tourmaline, cut parallel to the...substance to which Theophrastus alludes under the name of lyncu+ Elect. Fig. 24, Tourmaline. a. Brazilian tourmaline. By cooling, the upper end becomes positively... | |
| Jonathan Pereira - Light - 1854 - 354 pages
...reflection, at oblique angles of incidence, in certain positions only of the reflector. :. Penetrates a plate of tourmaline (cut parallel to the axis of the crystal) in certain positions of the plate, but in others is wholly intercepted. i. Penetrates a bundle of parallel... | |
| John King - Microscope and microscopy - 1859 - 344 pages
...capable of reflection at oblique angles of incidence in every position of the reflector. 2. Penetrates a plate of tourmaline (cut parallel to the axis of the crystal) in every position of the plate. 3. Penetrates a bundle of A KAY OF POLABCEKD LIGHT. 1. Is capable of... | |
| Home tutor - 1862 - 532 pages
...capable of refaction at oblique angles of incidence in every position of the reflector. 2. Penetrates a plate of tourmaline (cut parallel to the axis of the crystal) in every position of the plate. 3. Penetrates a bundle of parallel glass plates in every position of... | |
| John Henry Pepper - Chemistry - 1869 - 722 pages
...Will pass through a bundle of plates of glass in any position in which they may be placed. 3. Passes through a plate of tourmaline, cut parallel to the axis of the crystal, in every position of the plate. POLARIZATION BY THE TOURMALINE. " Amongst crystallized minerals there... | |
| Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Periodicals - 1869 - 530 pages
...in every position of the reflector, like common light, but in certain positions only; it penetrates a plate of tourmaline, cut parallel to the axis of the crystal, in some positions, but in others, unlike common light, is intercepted ; and in certain positions, it... | |
| Adolphe Ganot, William Guy Peck - Physics - 1871 - 510 pages
...plane, called the plane of poluriwtion, Light is best studied by allowing it to fall perpendicularly on a plate of tourmaline, cut parallel to the axis of the crystal. Such a plate allows no vibrations to pass except they be parallel to the axis. Hence the emergent beam... | |
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