Encyclopedic Dictionary of Polymers

2007 Edition
| Editors: Jan W. Gooch

Interference, destructive

Reference work entry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30160-0_6287

n. The retardation of two light beams exactly an odd number of half wavelengths, resulting in darkness as the two waves are perfectly out of phase.

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