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Pleochroic

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Adjective

1. pleochroic

of or relating to or having pleochroism

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Pleochroic

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noun
a property of certain crystals of absorbing light to an extent that depends on the orientation of the electric vector of the light with respect to the optic axes of the crystal. The effect occurs in uniaxial crystals (dichroism) and esp in biaxial crystals (trichroism)

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Pleochroic

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noun
the property of some minerals of absorbing selectively various wavelengths of light and of displaying different colors when looked at in the directions of the different crystal axes

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Pleochroic

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n.
The property possessed by some crystals of exhibiting different colors, especially three different colors, when viewed along different axes.

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