Definition of Optical opacity

1. Noun. Opacity to light.

Generic synonyms: Opacity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Optical Opacity

optical illusion
optical illusions
optical image
optical index
optical instrument
optical iridectomy
optical isomer
optical isomerism
optical isomers
optical keratoplasty
optical lens
optical maser
optical media
optical microscope
optical noise
optical opacity (current term)
optical pachymeter
optical phenomenon
optical prism
optical pyrometer
optical righting reflexes
optical rotation
optical rotatory dispersion
optical scrambler
optical sectioning
optical spectrum
optical staining
optical storage devices
optical switch
optical telescope

Literary usage of Optical opacity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1908)
"It resembles other naphthas examined by the author, but differs from them in optical opacity, showing that it is of a different geological age. ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1887)
"The fourth question (' Is there any relation between optical opacity and ... Assuming that ' optical opacity' is included in the more comprehensive term ..."

3. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1912)
"this "going over" being manifested by an increase in the optical opacity and a change from a red color to a white when a flame is observed through a thin ..."

4. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1887)
"The fourth question (' Is there any relation between optical opacity and electrolytic conductivity ?') appears to me to be very intimately associated with ..."

5. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by John Timbs (1875)
"But the number of particles, or, in other words, the density of the fog, is declared by its action upon light ; hence the optical opacity will be a measure ..."

6. Investigations on the Theory of the Photographic Process by Samuel Edward Sheppard, Charles Edward Kenneth Mees (1907)
"Hertzsprung' has attempted to trace a connection between the optical opacity (J>) and gradation on certain assumptions of his own. These assumptions appear ..."

7. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1874)
"But the number of particles, or, in other words, the density of the fog, is declared by its action upon light ; hence the optical opacity will be a measure ..."

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