polarizing microscope

American  

noun

1. a microscope that utilizes polarized light to reveal detail in an object, used especially to study crystalline and fibrous structures.

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polarizing microscope Scientific  

/ pō′lə-rī′zĭng /

1. A microscope in which the object viewed is illuminated by polarized light. Since some materials act like polarizing filters, viewing objects with polarized light can reveal such materials when ordinary light would fail to bring them into relief.

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Example Sentences

In order to see the axial colours separately the crystal must be examined with a dichroscope, or in a polarizing microscope from which the analyser has been removed.

From Project Gutenberg

These crystals vary in different animals, as they are studied under the polarizing microscope, both in form and molecular structure.

From Project Gutenberg