trichroism

Questions

What does trichroism mean?

The property of some optically anisotropic crystals of transmitting different colours of light in three different spatial directions.

Where does trichroism come from?

Etymology tree English trichroic Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English trichroism From trichroic + -ism.

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