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pleochroism
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- optical phenomenon
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- Pleochroism
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Background
- In mineralogy and gemology
- List of pleochroic minerals
- Purple and violet
- Blue
- Green
- Yellow
- Brown and orange
- Red and pink
- See also
- References
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thumb|Pleochroism of cordierite shown by rotating a polarizing filter on the lens of the camera thumb|Pleochroism of tourmaline shown by rotating a polarizing filter on the lens of the camera
Pleochroism is an optical phenomenon in which a substance has different colors when positioned at different angles with respect to linearly polarized light.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pleochroism” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.