polariscope
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Patient work with chemicals and a polariscope discovered the three new kinds of fruit sugar in the remaining 5%.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a result of this work Arago constructed a polariscope, which he used for some interesting observations on the polarization of the light of the sky.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
On looking at the sun in the polariscope, the image, as before observed, is seen to be purely white—a proof that the medium through which the luminous substance is made visible to us is gaseous.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 441 Volume 17, New Series, June 12, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
It is used for the prisms of the polariscope, because of its strong double refraction.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section I, J, K, and L by Project Gutenberg
The instrument commonly employed for measuring the optic axial angle of biaxial crystals is really a combination of a goniometer with a polariscope.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
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