Polarity - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: polarity Page: 4Polarimetry
The art or process of measuring the polarization of light...
Polarizable
Susceptible of polarization...
VerbarRadius vector
A straight line or the length of such line connecting any point as of a curve with a fixed point or pole round which the straight line turns and to which it serves to refer the successive points of a curve in a system of polar cooumlrdinates See Cooumlrdinate n...
Roumlntgen ray
An X ray originally the term was applied to any of the rays produced when cathode rays strike upon surface of a solid as the wall of the vacuum tube but now it refers specifically to electromagnetic radiation having wavelengths from 10 3 nm to 10 nm immediately below ultraviolet radiation on the wavelength scale Roumlntgen rays are noted for their penetration of opaque substances as wood and flesh their action on photographic plates and their fluorescent effects They were called X rays by their discoverer W K Roumlntgen They are one of the forms of ionizing radiation which can have damaging effects on living cells They also ionize gases but cannot be reflected or polarized or deflected by a magnetic field They are used in examining opaque objects especially in medicine for visualizing organs and other objects inside the human body as for locating fractures or bullets and examining internal organs for abnormalities...
Levorotatory
Turning or rotating the plane of polarization of light towards the left applied to crystals and compounds exhibiting optical activity such as levulose left handed quartz crystals etc Opposite of dextrorotatory...
Dextrin
A translucent gummy amorphous substance nearly tasteless and odorless used as a substitute for gum for sizing etc and obtained from starch by the action of heat acids or diastase It is of somewhat variable composition containing several carbohydrates which change easily to their respective varieties of sugar It is so named from its rotating the plane of polarization to the right called also British gum Alsace gum gommelin leiocome etc See Achrooumldextrin and Erythrodextrin...
Levogyrate
Turning or twisting the plane of polarization of light towards the left as levulose levotartaric acid etc levorotatory...
Isochromatic
Having the same color connecting parts having the same color as lines drawn through certain points in experiments on the chromatic effects of polarized light in crystals...
ionize
to dissociate into ions as by dissolution in water or another polar solvent...
Inducteous
Rendered electro polar by induction or brought into the opposite electrical state by the influence of inductive bodies...
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