Dictionary of Gems and Gemology

2009 Edition
| Editors: Mohsen Manutchehr-Danai

extinction pattern

Reference work entry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72816-0_7884

anomalous double refraction also occurs in diamonds under strain and it will be determined whether a stone in polarized light to discover the strain in it forms the extinction pattern.

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