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Plane-polarized light transmitted by a dichroic crystal

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trichroism dichroism optical activity pleochroic halo crystal double refraction symmetry polymorphism Brewster’s law crystal defect reststrahlen Miller indices X-ray diffraction Faraday effect Steno’s law anisotropy