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n. - An optical device used to measure the rotation of the plane of vibration of light that is reflected or transmitted through certain media so that all vibrations are restricted to a single plane.

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  • What is the polariscope, and how is it employed in sugar work?
  • 'On a new Electro polariscope' and 'On the Double Refraction of the
  • He invented the polariscope, and produced the first solar coronagraph.
  • Iceland spar is used chiefly in the optical instrument known as the polariscope.
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