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iridescence
iridescence , exhibition of rainbowlike colors on a surface. It usually results from interference when light composed of different wavelengths is reflected from the superficial layers of organic or inorganic substances, e.g., minerals, mother-of-pearl, and the feathers of birds. Iridescence greatly enhances the value of certain gems. |
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"iridescence." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "iridescence." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-iridesce.html "iridescence." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-iridesce.html |
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iridescence
iridescence A physical phenomenon in which fine colours are produced on a surface by the interference of light that is reflected from both the front and back of a thin film.
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MICHAEL ALLABY. "iridescence." A Dictionary of Ecology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MICHAEL ALLABY. "iridescence." A Dictionary of Ecology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O14-iridescence.html MICHAEL ALLABY. "iridescence." A Dictionary of Ecology. 2004. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O14-iridescence.html |
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iridescence
iridescence A physical phenomenon in which fine colours are produced on a surface by the interference of light that is reflected from both the front and back of a thin film.
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MICHAEL ALLABY. "iridescence." A Dictionary of Zoology. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MICHAEL ALLABY. "iridescence." A Dictionary of Zoology. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O8-iridescence.html MICHAEL ALLABY. "iridescence." A Dictionary of Zoology. 1999. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O8-iridescence.html |
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iridescence
iridescence Physical phenomenon in which fine colours are produced on a surface by the interference of light that is reflected from both the front and back of a thin film.
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AILSA ALLABY and MICHAEL ALLABY. "iridescence." A Dictionary of Earth Sciences. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. AILSA ALLABY and MICHAEL ALLABY. "iridescence." A Dictionary of Earth Sciences. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O13-iridescence.html AILSA ALLABY and MICHAEL ALLABY. "iridescence." A Dictionary of Earth Sciences. 1999. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O13-iridescence.html |
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iridescence
iridescence •abeyance, conveyance, purveyance
•creance • ambience
•irradiance, radiance
•expedience, obedience
•audience
•dalliance, mésalliance
•salience
•consilience, resilience
•emollience • ebullience
•convenience, lenience, provenience
•impercipience, incipience, percipience
•variance • experience
•luxuriance, prurience
•nescience • omniscience
•insouciance • deviance
•subservience • transience
•alliance, appliance, compliance, defiance, misalliance, neuroscience, reliance, science
•allowance
•annoyance, clairvoyance, flamboyance
•fluence, pursuance
•perpetuance • affluence • effluence
•mellifluence • confluence
•congruence • issuance • continuance
•disturbance
•attendance, dependence, interdependence, resplendence, superintendence, tendance, transcendence
•cadence
•antecedence, credence, impedance
•riddance • diffidence • confidence
•accidence • precedence • dissidence
•coincidence, incidence
•evidence
•improvidence, providence
•residence
•abidance, guidance, misguidance, subsidence
•correspondence, despondence
•accordance, concordance, discordance
•avoidance, voidance
•imprudence, jurisprudence, prudence
•impudence • abundance • elegance
•arrogance • extravagance
•allegiance • indigence
•counter-intelligence, intelligence
•negligence • diligence • intransigence
•exigence
•divulgence, effulgence, indulgence, refulgence
•convergence, divergence, emergence, insurgence, resurgence, submergence
•significance
•balance, counterbalance, imbalance, outbalance, valance
•parlance • repellence • semblance
•bivalence, covalence, surveillance, valence
•sibilance • jubilance • vigilance
•pestilence • silence • condolence
•virulence • ambulance • crapulence
•flatulence • feculence • petulance
•opulence • fraudulence • corpulence
•succulence, truculence
•turbulence • violence • redolence
•indolence • somnolence • excellence
•insolence • nonchalance
•benevolence, malevolence
•ambivalence, equivalence
•Clemence • vehemence
•conformance, outperformance, performance
•adamance • penance • ordinance
•eminence • imminence
•dominance, prominence
•abstinence • maintenance
•continence • countenance
•sustenance
•appurtenance, impertinence, pertinence
•provenance • ordnance • repugnance
•ordonnance • immanence
•impermanence, permanence
•assonance • dissonance • consonance
•governance • resonance • threepence
•halfpence • sixpence
•comeuppance, tuppence, twopence
•clarence, transparence
•aberrance, deterrence, inherence, Terence
•remembrance • entrance
•Behrens, forbearance
•fragrance • hindrance • recalcitrance
•abhorrence, Florence, Lawrence, Lorentz
•monstrance
•concurrence, co-occurrence, occurrence, recurrence
•encumbrance
•adherence, appearance, clearance, coherence, interference, perseverance
•assurance, durance, endurance, insurance
•exuberance, protuberance
•preponderance • transference
•deference, preference, reference
•difference • inference • conference
•sufferance • circumference
•belligerence • tolerance • ignorance
•temperance • utterance • furtherance
•irreverence, reverence, severance
•deliverance • renascence • absence
•acquiescence, adolescence, arborescence, coalescence, convalescence, deliquescence, effervescence, essence, evanescence, excrescence, florescence, fluorescence, incandescence, iridescence, juvenescence, luminescence, obsolescence, opalescence, phosphorescence, pubescence, putrescence, quiescence, quintessence, tumescence
•obeisance, Renaissance
•puissance
•impuissance, reminiscence
•beneficence, maleficence
•magnificence, munificence
•reconnaissance • concupiscence
•reticence
•licence, license
•nonsense
•nuisance, translucence
•innocence • conversance • sentience
•impatience, patience
•conscience
•repentance, sentence
•acceptance • acquaintance
•acquittance, admittance, intermittence, pittance, quittance, remittance
•assistance, coexistence, consistence, distance, existence, insistence, outdistance, persistence, resistance, subsistence
•instance • exorbitance
•concomitance
•impenitence, penitence
•appetence
•competence, omnicompetence
•inheritance • capacitance • hesitance
•Constance • importance • potence
•conductance, inductance, reluctance
•substance • circumstance
•omnipotence • impotence
•inadvertence • grievance
•irrelevance, relevance
•connivance, contrivance
•observance • sequence • consequence
•subsequence • eloquence
•grandiloquence, magniloquence
•brilliance • poignance
•omnipresence, pleasance, presence
•complaisance • malfeasance
•incognizance, recognizance
•usance • recusance
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"iridescence." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "iridescence." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-iridescence.html "iridescence." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-iridescence.html |
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