refrangibility
- a word derived from refrangible.
Example Sentences
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He devoted his attention to the improvement of refracting telescopes, and succeeded in constructing object-glasses in which the refrangibility of the rays of light was corrected.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various
It corresponds in refrangibility with the yellow band of the spectrum.
From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by Tyndall, John
Brewster, startled at the novel thought, as he well might be, hesitatingly refers "to the refrangibility of rays and the angle of incidence," which is effective though glorious in its absurdity.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various
This is an illustration of what is called the aberration of refrangibility.
From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane
Accordingly I accounted for the presence of the dark D in the solar spectrum by supposing that there was sodium in the atmosphere, capable of absorbing light of that particular refrangibility.
From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew
