refrangibility

Neither when I spoke of red, or blue, and green, as well as refrangibility, had I these several colors, or the rays of light passing into a different medium, and there diverted from their course, painted before me in the way of images.

On the Sublime and Beautiful 2007

Newton sets forth his classic experiments showing that light is a heterogeneous mixture of rays of different refrangibility, and that rays of different refrangibility differ also in color.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HENRY GUERLAC 1968

According to rigid Newtonians, air is transparent, or, rather, invisible; and the azure colour of the atmosphere arises from the greater refrangibility of the blue rays of light.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 564, September 1, 1832 Various

When the angle of incidence is increased, the band moves in the direction of increasing refrangibility, and at the same time increases rapidly in width.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 Various

Undersökningar, _ presented to the Stockholm Academy in 1853, he not only pointed out that the electric spark yields two superposed spectra, one from the metal of the electrode and the other from the gas in which it passes, but deduced from Euler's theory of resonance that an incandescent gas emits luminous rays of the same refrangibility as those which it can absorb.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

[Shown.] (2) As the angle of incidence is increased, the reflected light becomes brighter and rises in refrangibility.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 Various

The principal experiments also indicate that it is the rays of highest refrangibility -- the blue-violet and ultra-violet rays of the spectrum -- which bring about the destruction of the organisms (figs. 17, 18).

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

If we hold with Professor Allman that thought, will, and conscience, though only manifesting themselves through the medium of cerebral protoplasm, are not its properties any more than the invisible earth elements which lie beyond the violet are the property of the medium which, by altering their refrangibility, makes them its own -- then the study of the exact nature and properties of the transmitting medium is equally necessary.

Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 Various

The presence or absence of spores; when present, spores show their typical refrangibility exceedingly well by this method.

The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.

Doppler's principle, by which light alters in refrangibility through the end-on motion of its source, was first made effective for astronomical reseach by 1868.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913