"Cotton-Mouton effect" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Cotton-Mouton effects [plural]
Etymology: Named after Aimé Cotton and Henri Mouton who discovered the effect in 1905. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Cotton-Mouton effect (plural Cotton-Mouton effects)
  1. (physics, uncommon) The birefringence in a liquid in the presence of a constant transverse magnetic field. Wikipedia link: Aimé Cotton, Henri Mouton Tags: uncommon Categories (topical): Optics, Physics
    Sense id: en-Cotton-Mouton_effect-en-noun--OYwcE6S Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics

Inflected forms

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