opalescence

How To Use opalescence In A Sentence

• Wafered teams of cloudlets careen warmly in rushes of opalescence.
• -- Just before the end-point is reached, a very slight opalescence may be noted in the fluid, due to the precipitation of dibasic phosphates. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.
• Keep _A_ for comparison, and to _B_ add saliva, and expose both to about 104° F. _A_ is unaffected, while _B_ soon becomes fluid -- within two minutes -- and loses its opalescence; this liquefaction is a process quite antecedent to the saccharifying process which follows. A Practical Physiology
• The water in front of me beckons with the green-blue milky-white opalescence peculiar to reef shallows.
• Others have curious flashes of light, technically called a "play" of light (as described in Chapter VI. on "Colour"), together with a curious blue opalescence; these are the "girasol. The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones