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On a large scale crystalline structure in certain glasses of exceptional composition

Author(s) -

Lord Rayleigh

Publication year - 1932

Publication title -

proceedings of the royal society of london series a containing papers of a mathematical and physical character

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2053-9150

pISSN - 0950-1207

DOI - 10.1098/rspa.1932.0120

Subject(s) - character (mathematics) , refraction , composition (language) , scale (ratio) , field (mathematics) , stress (linguistics) , materials science , chemistry , mineralogy , optics , chemical physics , composite material , crystallography , physics , mathematics , geometry , literature , pure mathematics , art , philosophy , linguistics , quantum mechanics

Some years ago I described a doubly refracting structure in silica glass. This was detected by examining the glass between crossed nicols, using the necessary precautions to get a really dark field, so that very weak double refractions are brought into evidence. The character of this double refraction was such that it could not be attributed to mechanical stress, and had rather to be assimilated to the “liquid crystals” observed by Lehmann in some melted organic substances.

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