Dictionary of Gems and Gemology

2009 Edition
| Editors: Mohsen Manutchehr-Danai

orthoscope

Reference work entry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72816-0_15895
a polarizing microscope used in mineralogy or metallurgy in which light is transmitted by a crystal that is parallel to the microscope axis.
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