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Meanings of iceland spar in English

Russian
исландский шпат
Portuguese
espato da islândia
Spanish
espato de islandia
Catalan
espat d'islàndia
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Mineral variety.

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          исландский шпат
          Usage of iceland spar in English
          1
          By mechanical compression other bodies were also made to imitate the Iceland spar.
          Faraday as a Discoverer
          2
          One uses Iceland spar under colossal pressures, that is all.
          The Worlds of If
          3
          Block of Iceland spar (very transparent to ordinary light, but very opaque to Röntgen rays).
          McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896
          4
          An eminent example of magne-crystallic action adduced by Plucker, and experimented on by Faraday, was Iceland spar.
          Faraday as a Discoverer
          5
          The same remark applies to the line joining the opposite blunt angles of a crystal of Iceland spar.
          Faraday as a Discoverer
          6
          An able optician, named Nicol, cut a crystal of Iceland spar in two halves in a certain direction.
          Six Lectures on Light / Delivered In The United States In 1872-1...
          7
          Double refraction is displayed in a particularly impressive manner by Iceland spar, which is crystallized carbonate of lime.
          Six Lectures on Light / Delivered In The United States In 1872-1...
          8
          Transparent calcite, a mineral commonly called " Iceland spar," is found, one mine of which furnishes an excellent quality.
          Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
          9
          Iceland spar also cleaves in three directions, not at right angles, but oblique to each other, the resulting solid being a rhomboid.
          Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
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