Prismatic - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: prismaticPrismatic
Resembling or pertaining to a prism as a prismatic form or cleavage...
Diamond
A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors and remarkable for extreme hardness...
Pyroxene
A common mineral occurring in monoclinic crystals with a prismatic angle of nearly 90deg and also in massive forms which are often laminated It varies in color from white to dark green and black and includes many varieties differing in color and composition as diopside malacolite salite coccolite augite etc They are all silicates of lime and magnesia with sometimes alumina and iron Pyroxene is an essential constituent of many rocks especially basic igneous rocks as basalt gabbro etc...
Orthite
A variety of allanite occurring in slender prismatic crystals...
Metallochrome
A coloring produced by the deposition of some metallic compound specifically the prismatic tints produced by depositing a film of peroxide of lead on polished steel by electricity...
Iriscope
A philosophical toy for exhibiting the prismatic tints by means of thin films...
Irisated
Exhibiting the prismatic colors irised iridescent...
Iridescent
Having colors like the rainbow exhibiting a play of changeable colors nacreous prismatic as iridescent glass See iridescence...
Iridescence
Exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow especially a surface reflection which changes color with the angle at which the object is viewed the quality or state of being iridescent a prismatic play of color as the iridescence of mother of pearl It is due to interference of light waves reflected from the front and back surfaces of a thin layer transpatrent or semitransparent film...
Iridal
Of or pertaining to the iris or rainbow prismatic as the iridal colors...
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