birefringent

ADJECTIVE
  1. relating to or characterized by double refraction

How To Use birefringent In A Sentence

  • At the macroscopic scale, samples held in test-tubes spontaneously demix under the influence of gravity into a top isotropic phase and a bottom birefringent nematic phase.
  • These aggregates scatter light, however, due to their amorphous nature, and would not be spherulitic or birefringent.
  • Histologic studies have shown polymetric birefringent particles surrounded by mononuclear phagocytes and multinucleated foreign body giant cells.
  • Fibres distal to the vascular elements as well as the parenchyma cells in the ground tissue had weakly birefringent cell walls, which may be attributed to a transverse orientation of cellulose microfibrils in the primary cell wall.
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