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
Iceland spar is used chiefly in the optical instrument known as the polariscope.
From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Jewett Castello Gilson
Yet experiments with the polariscope were interpreted in an adverse sense, and Bond's conclusion that the comet sent us virtually unmixed reflected sunshine was generally acquiesced in.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
On account of the predominance of invert sugars, pure honey has a levulo or left-handed rotation when examined by the polariscope.
From Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value by Harry Snyder
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 Robert Chambers
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