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UNIAXIAL INTERFERENCE FIGURE [1 record]

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Record 1 2015-04-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
OBS

For uniaxial crystals, the interference figure consists of two intersecting black bars - or, as they are called, isogyres - that form a cross ... This cross is concentric with a series of circles ... If white light is the illuminant, [the circles] represent circular distributions of the interference colors ..., the inner circles being marked by increasingly lower order colors.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
OBS

Dans le cas d'un cristal uniaxe, examiné dans la direction de l'axe optique, il se produit une figure d'interférence ressemblant à une croix noire avec des cercles colorés [...]

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