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Effect of Orientation on the Metallic Reflexion of Polarized Light

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E. C. W. Perryman and Miss J. M. Lack1 have attributed the optical anisotropy of etched monel, which is face-centred cubic and should be optically isotropic, to the presence of a surface structure. They find, however, that optically anisotropic cadmium does not possess a similar structure.

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  1. Perryman, E. C. W., and Lack, J. M., Nature, 167, 479 (1951).

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  3. Woodard, D. H., and Vacher, H. C. (to be published).

  4. Bronson, E. L., M.I.T. thesis (1951) (to be published).

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  1. Metallurgical Project, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.

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WOODARD, D., BRONSON, E. Effect of Orientation on the Metallic Reflexion of Polarized Light. Nature 168, 742–743 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/168742a0

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