How To Use Iridescence In A Sentence
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A sparkling phosphorescence blossomed out through the water from where they hit the water, and the pool was lit with a strange iridescence.
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However, she had the charm, and those who feared her were also fond of her; the fear and the fondness being perhaps both heightened by what may be called the iridescence of her character -- the play of various, nay, contrary tendencies.
Daniel Deronda
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There's no sham there; no deception -- except the iridescence, which is, as you doubtless know, an optical illusion attributable to the intervention of rays of light reflected from microscopic corrugations of the nacreous surface.
Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana
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The metathorax transversely rugose; the pectus, and coxæ at their base within, black; wings brown, with a violet iridescence, their base rufo-hyaline; the intermediate and posterior tibiæ with a double row of spines, all the tarsi spinose.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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A pointless attention had been paid to the particularities of their plumage, their iridescence, and so on.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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a sparkling aqua from a manicurist, in other words someone who knows how a varnish should handle and finish: clean, clear as the Mediterranean Sea and very pretty with just the right iridescence to lift it.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Renaissance artists used paints and glazes that got their appealing color and iridescence from nanoparticles.
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He was beautiful and talked in stirring iridescence.
ADRIFT • by Andrew S. Fuller
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Most of the Lunarians wore ordinary garments, although their styles of it-upward-flared collars, short cloaks, dagged skirts, pectoral sunbursts, insignia of phyle or family, colors, iridescences, inset glitterlights, details more fanciful still-would have been florid were it not as natural on them as brilliance on a coral snake.
The Stars Are Also Fire
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The shells of the awabi, or 'sea-ear,' which reaches a surprising size in these western waters, are converted by skilful polishing and cutting into wonderful dishes, bowls, cups, and other articles, over whose surfaces the play of iridescence is like a flickering of fire of a hundred colours. º18
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series
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This is what we call iridescence without illumination.
Centennial
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Whereas Ellis concentrates on the music, I want to keep emphasising that in dance the rhythm and kinesis of the dance itself is integral to the iridescences that are built up to mix, mingle, and converge.
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The play of light and opacity is analogous to the relation of gaze and screen: "It is always that gleam of light — it lay at the heart of my little story — it is always this which prevents me, at each point, from being a screen, from making the light appear as an iridescence that overflows it" (96).
The Ordinary Sky: Wordsworth, Blanchot, and the Writing of Disaster
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Scientists investigating hibiscus petals identified waxy lines that gave the plants their iridescence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Luster, iridescence, and surface blemishes determine price, but so does size, color, shape, and unique matches of two or more pearls.
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Where but a few moments before had been men were only grotesque heaps, swiftly melting, swiftly rounding into the semblance of the mounds that lay behind us -- and already beginning to take on their gleam of ancient viridescence!
The Moon Pool
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I would lie under them and my eyes would rise buoyed up and surfeited in immense rustling viridescence.
Archive 2007-04-03
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The ladybirds were being irresistibly drawn to the iridescence of the white material and by the time he was standing, smartly leaning on his cane, with his toes amid the washed up dead ladybirds.
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Rarely chalcopyrite appeared as a thin film on sphalerite crystal faces, giving specimens a slight iridescence.
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Females are drabber, with subtle iridescence on overall grayish-brown bodies, spotted flanks, and a white teardrop surrounding each eye.
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The colors are caused by a phenomenon called iridescence, in which light is scattered by the laminated platelets on the feathers.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States
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Iridescence - and similar effects such as metallics, pearlescence, and colors that change according to light - are finding their way into new products.
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And high above all this, overlooking streets too steep for any vehicle, slope the red walls of the mouldering fort, patched with the viridescence of ruin.
Two Years in the French West Indies
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Other Tiffany pieces will include a lamp shade of green favrile glass in the Damascene pattern with brilliant iridescence, signed L.C.T. ($12,000-$17,000); a rare bronze sconce with three large inset turtle-back tiles of favrile glass with overall iridescence and original patina
Antique News News!
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He turned and began to pace among the flowers, flaring his wings from time to time so that the sunlight glittered off each pinion, and his feathers rippled with iridescence.
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In some cases the Roman pearl has a true iridescence which is produced by "burning" colors into the hollow enamel bead.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
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It contests every inch of space with man, and, aided by incessant heat and moisture, constantly wrests from him his conquests and buries them in a fury of viridescence.
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
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Her glazed porcelain wings billow in a gossamer sweep of iridescence.
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Using tissue paper will produce an unusual iridescence, as some of the foil will shine through.
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The golden iridescence of Cassida and its allies is produced by a film of moisture beneath the surface cuticle.
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Where but a few moments before had been men were only grotesque heaps, swiftly melting, swiftly rounding into the the semblance of the mounds that lay behind us — and already beginning to take on their gleam of ancient viridescence!
The Moon Pool
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DJBC – Build My Life (from Let it Beast) message from viridescence
2006 February | Radio Clash Music Podcast & Blog
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Sardines, however, are glorious enough to imagine enjoying their marinated iridescence dockside with soffrito crudo, and neither rabbit ballotine nor game-bird terrine betray any gaminess.
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Her hair, brown and warm in shadow, sparkled, where it caught the light, in a kind of crinkly iridescence, like threads of glass.
The Cardinal's Snuff-Box
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These air bubbles diffract light into colors that reflect back in a flash of iridescence.
Birdology
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Rich copper-red color intermingles with yellow-olive iridescence at the margins.
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Morbid states of passion, the hectic bloom of fever, heady perfumes of the Orient and the tropics; the bitter-sweet blossom of love; forced fruits of the hot-house (_serres chaudes_); the iridescence of standing pools; the fungoidal growths of decay; such are some of the hackneyed metaphors which render the impression of this neo-romantic poetry.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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And yet while teachers' strikes may have been popular with chatterers and some politicians, the iridescence has caused untold suffering among pupils whose school calendar has been dislocated.
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Fluorescent lighting illuminates the white underside of the outer shell generating a soft iridescence that evokes the mystery of a subterranean grotto, with the cave-like auditorium at its heart.
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A new study by Cambridge University has found that flowers take on different colours depending on the angle from which they are viewed†"plant petals use the property, known as iridescence, to attract pollinators.
The Times of India
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The iridescence phosphoresced through the spouts of water from the fountain.
The Art Thief
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The car enters the prismatic bands and I am bathed in iridescence.
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Tiny glasses of crystal-clear arak that clouded into milky iridescence when you added ice.
Day of Honey
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Sometimes a single slender thread, impearled with dewdrops, bridged the distance from one tendril to another, again a bit of cobweb was spread over a dead leaf, to catch a hint of iridescence from the sun or moon; and now and then a shimmering length of ghostly fabric was set in place at dusk, to hold the starry lights that came to shine upon the broken tapestry with the peace of benediction.
Master of the Vineyard
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Strontium sulfate is sometimes used to produce iridescence in glass and pottery glazes, and can also be used as a fining agent (to remove bubbles in the molten glass) in crystal glass.
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And similarly of his friend, Mrs. Taylor, "She was a will-o'-the - wispish iridescence of a creature; meaning nothing bad either"; and again of Mill himself, "His talk is sawdustish, like ale when there is no wine to be had.
Thomas Carlyle
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As I was being consumed by the iridescence of light reflected by the dewdrops, Crystal, my horse neighed impatiently putting his moist, warm brown muzzle to my ear.
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The term "iridescence" is used when the display of colour is seen on the surface, rather than coming out of the stone itself.
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
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This viridescence is caused by the single-celled alga Oophilia amblystomatis.
Scientific American