Birefringence is a property of certain materials that split a beam of light into two rays with different polarizations, causing double refraction. It arises from anisotropy in the material’s internal structure, leading to two refractive indices. The term is common in optics and mineralogy and is used to describe how light behaves when passing through crystals like calcite.
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1:00Absorption
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1:04Acceleration
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0:59Acoustic
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1:02Adiabatic
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1:05Anisotropic
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1:05Anisotropy
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1:03Astigmatism
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1:03Attenuation
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1:06Birefringence
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1:03Calorimetry
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