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Opalescence
Opalescence meaning
the state of being opalescent | the milky iridescent appearance of a dense transparent medium when it is illuminated by polychromatic visible radiation (such as sunlight) due to local fluctuations in its density and therefore in its refractive index
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Opalescence was clearly headed at the 200m but fought back doggedly to take the win from a brave Boomer Hall with Piaggio running on stoutly for third.
Contrarily, opalescence is correctly applied to the milky, turbid appearance of common or potch opal.
Theory of critical opalescence main Einstein returned to the problem of thermodynamic fluctuations, giving a treatment of the density variations in a fluid at its critical point.