polariscope
[poh-lar-uh-skohp, puh-]
- an instrument for measuring or exhibiting the polarization of light or for examining substances in polarized light, often to determine stress and strain in glass and other substances.
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What is the polariscope, and how is it employed in sugar work?
Human Foods and Their Nutritive ValueHarry Snyder
They were unknown until the microscope was invented; the polariscope reveals yet further beauties; the telescope yet more.
The Churches and Modern ThoughtPhilip Vivian
If these give a positive result, we proceed to a quantitative examination by means of the polariscope.
Schenk's Theory: The Determination of SexSamuel Leopold Schenk
Appearance of the black cross and coloured circles in a square and circular piece of unannealed glass in the polariscope.
The Boy's Playbook of ScienceJohn Henry Pepper
Arago somewhat hastily inferred from experiments with the polariscope the wholly gaseous nature of the visible disc of the sun.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth CenturyAgnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
polariscope
- an instrument for detecting polarized light or for observing objects under polarized light, esp for detecting strain in transparent materialsSee photoelasticity
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