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birefringence noun

  /baɪɹɪˈfɹɪnd͡ʒəns/
  • (physics) The splitting of a ray of light into two parallel rays of perpendicular polarization by passage through an optically anisotropic medium; the property of a material that light passing through it is so split.
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birefringent

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