The stone would like have been made of a so-called birefringent material, like calcite or certain plastics, that can split light into separate rays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

"White" carbon is transparent birefringent material.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carbon] Reference

In fact, they did find some birefringent material in there, and that ` s why she may have been penetrated by some object.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2006] Reference

Clouds are produced by defocusing colorless birefringent crystals of Cibachrome bleach.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

It is then the interaction of plane-polarized light with a birefringent specimen that results in image contrast.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Llama Hair - Llama hair (or fur) is birefringent, making it a good candidate for observation with polarized light microscopy.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In this July 8, 2010 photo, University of California at Berkeley Professor Marty Banks gestures beside the birefringent lens display in Berkeley, Calif.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breaking News: CBS News] Reference

These polarizing beamsplitter cubes use a coating rather than birefringent materials to split S and P polarization with a 90-Deg deviation over 700-1100nm.    From Wordnik.com.  [optics.org all content] Reference

In contrast, polarizing prisms are birefringent crystals that divide incident non-polarized light into separate components polarized orthogonally to each other.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In this July 8, 2010 photo, University of California at Berkeley Professor Marty Banks looks through a birefringent lens display Thursday, July 8, 2010, in Berkeley, Calif.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breaking News: CBS News] Reference

This microscope was introduced by Camille Sébastien Nachet in 1833, and was one of the first microscopes to feature crossed-polarized illumination for the examination of birefringent samples.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In addition, several specimens exhibiting birefringent character are included to demonstrate the kaleidoscopic display of color that arises when anisotropic substances are imaged with this technique.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The resulting plane-polarized light can be utilized to illuminate birefringent specimens in a microscope or any other device that requires the input of light having electric field vibrations restricted to a single plane.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

(Or, similar birefringent element.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Quantum Mechanics, But Were Afraid to Ask] Reference

A third birefringent prism is known as the.    From Wordnik.com. Reference