Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Transparency and translucency

Index Transparency and translucency

In the field of optics, transparency (also called pellucidity or diaphaneity) is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material without being scattered. [1]

131 relations: Absorption (electromagnetic radiation), Adjacent-channel interference, Aluminium oxide, Amorphous solid, Anisotropy, Atom, Atomic nucleus, Atomic number, Atomic orbital, Attenuation, Birefringence, Borosilicate glass, Bravais lattice, Brillouin scattering, Brownian motion, Buoyancy, Camouflage, Cell (biology), Ceramic, Chemical bond, Chemical composition, Cladding (fiber optics), Cod, Colloidal crystal, Color, Colour centre (disambiguation), Compton scattering, Core (optical fiber), Crypsis, Crystal, Crystallite, Crystallographic defect, Cycle per second, Cylinder, Dielectric, Diffuse reflection, Dimension, Dipole, Dragonfly, Electric charge, Electromagnetic spectrum, Electron, Energy level, Fiber, Fluorescence, Frequency, Glass, Glass frog, Grain boundary, Guided ray, ..., Haze (optics), Heat, Insect, Insulator (electricity), Invisibility, Ionic bonding, Ithomiini, Jellyfish, Laser, Lattice model (physics), Light-emitting diode, Luminescence, Marine biology, Mean, Mesoglea, Metal, Metallic bonding, Micrometer, Microscope, Molecular vibration, Multi-mode optical fiber, Nanometre, Nanotechnology, Normal mode, Opacity (optics), Optical communication, Optical fiber, Optical medium, Optics, Oscillation, Pellicle mirror, Periodic table, Phosphorescence, Photoelectric effect, Photon, Photonic crystal, Physical property, Pigment, Plankton, Plate glass, Position (vector), Quantum, Quartz, Radiant energy, Rayleigh scattering, Reflection (physics), Refraction, Refractive index, Relative direction, Resonance, Sapphire, Scattering, Sea, Selection rule, Silicon dioxide, Snell's law, Sol–gel process, Spectrum, Speed of light, Stress (mechanics), Symmetry, Symmetry group, Thermal energy, Total internal reflection, Transmit (file transfer tool), Transmittance, Transparency and translucency, Transparency meter, Transparent ceramics, Transparent conducting film, Turbidity, Ultraviolet, Valence and conduction bands, Valence electron, Vibration, Visible spectrum, Water, Waveguide, Wavelength, Yttrium aluminium garnet, Yttrium(III) oxide. Expand index (81 more) »

Absorption (electromagnetic radiation)

In physics, absorption of electromagnetic radiation is the way in which the energy of a photon is taken up by matter, typically the electrons of an atom.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Absorption (electromagnetic radiation) · See more »

Adjacent-channel interference

Adjacent-channel interference (ACI) is interference caused by extraneous power from a signal in an adjacent channel.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Adjacent-channel interference · See more »

Aluminium oxide

Aluminium oxide (British English) or aluminum oxide (American English) is a chemical compound of aluminium and oxygen with the chemical formula 23.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Aluminium oxide · See more »

Amorphous solid

In condensed matter physics and materials science, an amorphous (from the Greek a, without, morphé, shape, form) or non-crystalline solid is a solid that lacks the long-range order that is characteristic of a crystal.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Amorphous solid · See more »

Anisotropy

Anisotropy, is the property of being directionally dependent, which implies different properties in different directions, as opposed to isotropy.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Anisotropy · See more »

Atom

An atom is the smallest constituent unit of ordinary matter that has the properties of a chemical element.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Atom · See more »

Atomic nucleus

The atomic nucleus is the small, dense region consisting of protons and neutrons at the center of an atom, discovered in 1911 by Ernest Rutherford based on the 1909 Geiger–Marsden gold foil experiment.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Atomic nucleus · See more »

Atomic number

The atomic number or proton number (symbol Z) of a chemical element is the number of protons found in the nucleus of an atom.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Atomic number · See more »

Atomic orbital

In quantum mechanics, an atomic orbital is a mathematical function that describes the wave-like behavior of either one electron or a pair of electrons in an atom.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Atomic orbital · See more »

Attenuation

In physics, attenuation or, in some contexts, extinction is the gradual loss of flux intensity through a medium.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Attenuation · See more »

Birefringence

Birefringence is the optical property of a material having a refractive index that depends on the polarization and propagation direction of light.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Birefringence · See more »

Borosilicate glass

Borosilicate glass is a type of glass with silica and boron trioxide as the main glass-forming constituents.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Borosilicate glass · See more »

Bravais lattice

In geometry and crystallography, a Bravais lattice, named after, is an infinite array of discrete points in three dimensional space generated by a set of discrete translation operations described by: where ni are any integers and ai are known as the primitive vectors which lie in different directions and span the lattice.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Bravais lattice · See more »

Brillouin scattering

Brillouin scattering, named after Léon Brillouin, refers to the interaction of light and material waves within a medium.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Brillouin scattering · See more »

Brownian motion

Brownian motion or pedesis (from πήδησις "leaping") is the random motion of particles suspended in a fluid (a liquid or a gas) resulting from their collision with the fast-moving molecules in the fluid.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Brownian motion · See more »

Buoyancy

In physics, buoyancy or upthrust, is an upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of an immersed object.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Buoyancy · See more »

Camouflage

Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see (crypsis), or by disguising them as something else (mimesis).

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Camouflage · See more »

Cell (biology)

The cell (from Latin cella, meaning "small room") is the basic structural, functional, and biological unit of all known living organisms.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Cell (biology) · See more »

Ceramic

A ceramic is a non-metallic solid material comprising an inorganic compound of metal, non-metal or metalloid atoms primarily held in ionic and covalent bonds.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Ceramic · See more »

Chemical bond

A chemical bond is a lasting attraction between atoms, ions or molecules that enables the formation of chemical compounds.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Chemical bond · See more »

Chemical composition

Chemical composition refers to the identity and relative number of the chemical elements that make up any particular compound.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Chemical composition · See more »

Cladding (fiber optics)

Cladding in optical fibers is one or more layers of materials of lower refractive index, in intimate contact with a core material of higher refractive index.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Cladding (fiber optics) · See more »

Cod

Cod is the common name for the demersal fish genus Gadus, belonging to the family Gadidae.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Cod · See more »

Colloidal crystal

A colloidal crystal is an ordered array of colloid particles, analogous to a standard crystal whose repeating subunits are atoms or molecules.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Colloidal crystal · See more »

Color

Color (American English) or colour (Commonwealth English) is the characteristic of human visual perception described through color categories, with names such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, or purple.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Color · See more »

Colour centre (disambiguation)

colour centre may refer to.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Colour centre (disambiguation) · See more »

Compton scattering

Compton scattering, discovered by Arthur Holly Compton, is the scattering of a photon by a charged particle, usually an electron.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Compton scattering · See more »

Core (optical fiber)

The core of a conventional optical fiber is a cylinder of glass or plastic that runs along the fiber's length.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Core (optical fiber) · See more »

Crypsis

In ecology, crypsis is the ability of an animal to avoid observation or detection by other animals.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Crypsis · See more »

Crystal

A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules, or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Crystal · See more »

Crystallite

A crystallite is a small or even microscopic crystal which forms, for example, during the cooling of many materials.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Crystallite · See more »

Crystallographic defect

Crystalline solids exhibit a periodic crystal structure.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Crystallographic defect · See more »

Cycle per second

The cycle per second was a once-common English name for the unit of frequency now known as the hertz.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Cycle per second · See more »

Cylinder

A cylinder (from Greek κύλινδρος – kulindros, "roller, tumbler"), has traditionally been a three-dimensional solid, one of the most basic of curvilinear geometric shapes.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Cylinder · See more »

Dielectric

A dielectric (or dielectric material) is an electrical insulator that can be polarized by an applied electric field.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Dielectric · See more »

Diffuse reflection

Diffuse reflection is the reflection of light or other waves or particles from a surface such that a ray incident on the surface is scattered at many angles rather than at just one angle as in the case of specular reflection.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Diffuse reflection · See more »

Dimension

In physics and mathematics, the dimension of a mathematical space (or object) is informally defined as the minimum number of coordinates needed to specify any point within it.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Dimension · See more »

Dipole

In electromagnetism, there are two kinds of dipoles.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Dipole · See more »

Dragonfly

A dragonfly is an insect belonging to the order Odonata, infraorder Anisoptera (from Greek ἄνισος anisos, "uneven" and πτερόν pteron, "wing", because the hindwing is broader than the forewing).

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Dragonfly · See more »

Electric charge

Electric charge is the physical property of matter that causes it to experience a force when placed in an electromagnetic field.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Electric charge · See more »

Electromagnetic spectrum

The electromagnetic spectrum is the range of frequencies (the spectrum) of electromagnetic radiation and their respective wavelengths and photon energies.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Electromagnetic spectrum · See more »

Electron

The electron is a subatomic particle, symbol or, whose electric charge is negative one elementary charge.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Electron · See more »

Energy level

A quantum mechanical system or particle that is bound—that is, confined spatially—can only take on certain discrete values of energy.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Energy level · See more »

Fiber

Fiber or fibre (see spelling differences, from the Latin fibra) is a natural or synthetic substance that is significantly longer than it is wide.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Fiber · See more »

Fluorescence

Fluorescence is the emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Fluorescence · See more »

Frequency

Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Frequency · See more »

Glass

Glass is a non-crystalline amorphous solid that is often transparent and has widespread practical, technological, and decorative usage in, for example, window panes, tableware, and optoelectronics.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Glass · See more »

Glass frog

The glass frogs are frogs of the amphibian family Centrolenidae (order Anura).

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Glass frog · See more »

Grain boundary

A grain boundary is the interface between two grains, or crystallites, in a polycrystalline material.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Grain boundary · See more »

Guided ray

A guided ray (also bound ray or trapped ray) is a ray of light in a multi-mode optical fiber, which is confined by the core.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Guided ray · See more »

Haze (optics)

There are two different types of haze that can occur in materials.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Haze (optics) · See more »

Heat

In thermodynamics, heat is energy transferred from one system to another as a result of thermal interactions.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Heat · See more »

Insect

Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Insect · See more »

Insulator (electricity)

An electrical insulator is a material whose internal electric charges do not flow freely; very little electric current will flow through it under the influence of an electric field.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Insulator (electricity) · See more »

Invisibility

Invisibility is the state of an object that cannot be seen.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Invisibility · See more »

Ionic bonding

Ionic bonding is a type of chemical bonding that involves the electrostatic attraction between oppositely charged ions, and is the primary interaction occurring in ionic compounds.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Ionic bonding · See more »

Ithomiini

Ithomiini is a butterfly tribe in the nymphalid subfamily Danainae.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Ithomiini · See more »

Jellyfish

Jellyfish or sea jelly is the informal common name given to the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, a major part of the phylum Cnidaria.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Jellyfish · See more »

Laser

A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Laser · See more »

Lattice model (physics)

In physics, a lattice model is a physical model that is defined on a lattice, as opposed to the continuum of space or spacetime.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Lattice model (physics) · See more »

Light-emitting diode

A light-emitting diode (LED) is a two-lead semiconductor light source.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Light-emitting diode · See more »

Luminescence

Luminescence is emission of light by a substance not resulting from heat; it is thus a form of cold-body radiation.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Luminescence · See more »

Marine biology

Marine biology is the scientific study of marine life, organisms in the sea.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Marine biology · See more »

Mean

In mathematics, mean has several different definitions depending on the context.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Mean · See more »

Mesoglea

Mesoglea, also known as mesohyl, is the translucent, non-living, jelly-like substance found between the two epithelial cell layers (i.e., between the ectoderm and endoderm) in the bodies of cnidarians and sponges.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Mesoglea · See more »

Metal

A metal (from Greek μέταλλον métallon, "mine, quarry, metal") is a material (an element, compound, or alloy) that is typically hard when in solid state, opaque, shiny, and has good electrical and thermal conductivity.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Metal · See more »

Metallic bonding

Metallic bonding is a type of chemical bonding that arises from the electrostatic attractive force between conduction electrons (in the form of an electron cloud of delocalized electrons) and positively charged metal ions.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Metallic bonding · See more »

Micrometer

A micrometer, sometimes known as a micrometer screw gauge, is a device incorporating a calibrated screw widely used for precise measurement of components in mechanical engineering and machining as well as most mechanical trades, along with other metrological instruments such as dial, vernier, and digital calipers.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Micrometer · See more »

Microscope

A microscope (from the μικρός, mikrós, "small" and σκοπεῖν, skopeîn, "to look" or "see") is an instrument used to see objects that are too small to be seen by the naked eye.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Microscope · See more »

Molecular vibration

A molecular vibration occurs when atoms in a molecule are in periodic motion while the molecule as a whole has constant translational and rotational motion.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Molecular vibration · See more »

Multi-mode optical fiber

Multi-mode optical fiber is a type of optical fiber mostly used for communication over short distances, such as within a building or on a campus.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Multi-mode optical fiber · See more »

Nanometre

The nanometre (International spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: nm) or nanometer (American spelling) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one billionth (short scale) of a metre (m).

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Nanometre · See more »

Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology ("nanotech") is manipulation of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Nanotechnology · See more »

Normal mode

A normal mode of an oscillating system is a pattern of motion in which all parts of the system move sinusoidally with the same frequency and with a fixed phase relation.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Normal mode · See more »

Opacity (optics)

Opacity is the measure of impenetrability to electromagnetic or other kinds of radiation, especially visible light.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Opacity (optics) · See more »

Optical communication

Optical communication, also known as optical telecommunication, is communication at a distance using light to carry information.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Optical communication · See more »

Optical fiber

An optical fiber or optical fibre is a flexible, transparent fiber made by drawing glass (silica) or plastic to a diameter slightly thicker than that of a human hair.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Optical fiber · See more »

Optical medium

An optical medium is material through which electromagnetic waves propagate.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Optical medium · See more »

Optics

Optics is the branch of physics which involves the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Optics · See more »

Oscillation

Oscillation is the repetitive variation, typically in time, of some measure about a central value (often a point of equilibrium) or between two or more different states.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Oscillation · See more »

Pellicle mirror

A pellicle mirror (diminutive of pellis, a skin or film) is an ultra-thin, ultra-lightweight semi-transparent mirror employed in the light path of an optical instrument, splitting the light beam into two separate beams, both of reduced light intensity.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Pellicle mirror · See more »

Periodic table

The periodic table is a tabular arrangement of the chemical elements, ordered by their atomic number, electron configuration, and recurring chemical properties, whose structure shows periodic trends.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Periodic table · See more »

Phosphorescence

Phosphorescence is a type of photoluminescence related to fluorescence.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Phosphorescence · See more »

Photoelectric effect

The photoelectric effect is the emission of electrons or other free carriers when light shines on a material.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Photoelectric effect · See more »

Photon

The photon is a type of elementary particle, the quantum of the electromagnetic field including electromagnetic radiation such as light, and the force carrier for the electromagnetic force (even when static via virtual particles).

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Photon · See more »

Photonic crystal

A photonic crystal is a periodic optical nanostructure that affects the motion of photons in much the same way that ionic lattices affect electrons in solids.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Photonic crystal · See more »

Physical property

A physical property is any property that is measurable, whose value describes a state of a physical system.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Physical property · See more »

Pigment

A pigment is a material that changes the color of reflected or transmitted light as the result of wavelength-selective absorption.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Pigment · See more »

Plankton

Plankton (singular plankter) are the diverse collection of organisms that live in large bodies of water and are unable to swim against a current.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Plankton · See more »

Plate glass

Plate glass, flat glass or sheet glass is a type of glass, initially produced in plane form, commonly used for windows, glass doors, transparent walls, and windscreens.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Plate glass · See more »

Position (vector)

In geometry, a position or position vector, also known as location vector or radius vector, is a Euclidean vector that represents the position of a point P in space in relation to an arbitrary reference origin O. Usually denoted x, r, or s, it corresponds to the straight-line from O to P. The term "position vector" is used mostly in the fields of differential geometry, mechanics and occasionally vector calculus.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Position (vector) · See more »

Quantum

In physics, a quantum (plural: quanta) is the minimum amount of any physical entity (physical property) involved in an interaction.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Quantum · See more »

Quartz

Quartz is a mineral composed of silicon and oxygen atoms in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical formula of SiO2.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Quartz · See more »

Radiant energy

In physics, and in particular as measured by radiometry, radiant energy is the energy of electromagnetic and gravitational radiation.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Radiant energy · See more »

Rayleigh scattering

Rayleigh scattering (pronounced), named after the British physicist Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt), is the (dominantly) elastic scattering of light or other electromagnetic radiation by particles much smaller than the wavelength of the radiation.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Rayleigh scattering · See more »

Reflection (physics)

Reflection is the change in direction of a wavefront at an interface between two different media so that the wavefront returns into the medium from which it originated.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Reflection (physics) · See more »

Refraction

Refraction is the change in direction of wave propagation due to a change in its transmission medium.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Refraction · See more »

Refractive index

In optics, the refractive index or index of refraction of a material is a dimensionless number that describes how light propagates through that medium.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Refractive index · See more »

Relative direction

The most common relative directions are left, right, forward(s), backward(s), up, and down.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Relative direction · See more »

Resonance

In physics, resonance is a phenomenon in which a vibrating system or external force drives another system to oscillate with greater amplitude at specific frequencies.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Resonance · See more »

Sapphire

Sapphire is a precious gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum, an aluminium oxide.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Sapphire · See more »

Scattering

Scattering is a general physical process where some forms of radiation, such as light, sound, or moving particles, are forced to deviate from a straight trajectory by one or more paths due to localized non-uniformities in the medium through which they pass.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Scattering · See more »

Sea

A sea is a large body of salt water that is surrounded in whole or in part by land.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Sea · See more »

Selection rule

In physics and chemistry, a selection rule, or transition rule, formally constrains the possible transitions of a system from one quantum state to another.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Selection rule · See more »

Silicon dioxide

Silicon dioxide, also known as silica (from the Latin silex), is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula, most commonly found in nature as quartz and in various living organisms.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Silicon dioxide · See more »

Snell's law

Snell's law (also known as Snell–Descartes law and the law of refraction) is a formula used to describe the relationship between the angles of incidence and refraction, when referring to light or other waves passing through a boundary between two different isotropic media, such as water, glass, or air.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Snell's law · See more »

Sol–gel process

In materials science, the sol–gel process is a method for producing solid materials from small molecules.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Sol–gel process · See more »

Spectrum

A spectrum (plural spectra or spectrums) is a condition that is not limited to a specific set of values but can vary, without steps, across a continuum.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Spectrum · See more »

Speed of light

The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted, is a universal physical constant important in many areas of physics.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Speed of light · See more »

Stress (mechanics)

In continuum mechanics, stress is a physical quantity that expresses the internal forces that neighboring particles of a continuous material exert on each other, while strain is the measure of the deformation of the material.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Stress (mechanics) · See more »

Symmetry

Symmetry (from Greek συμμετρία symmetria "agreement in dimensions, due proportion, arrangement") in everyday language refers to a sense of harmonious and beautiful proportion and balance.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Symmetry · See more »

Symmetry group

In group theory, the symmetry group of an object (image, signal, etc.) is the group of all transformations under which the object is invariant with composition as the group operation.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Symmetry group · See more »

Thermal energy

Thermal energy is a term used loosely as a synonym for more rigorously-defined thermodynamic quantities such as the internal energy of a system; heat or sensible heat, which are defined as types of transfer of energy (as is work); or for the characteristic energy of a degree of freedom in a thermal system kT, where T is temperature and k is the Boltzmann constant.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Thermal energy · See more »

Total internal reflection

Total internal reflection is the phenomenon which occurs when a propagated wave strikes a medium boundary at an angle larger than a particular critical angle with respect to the normal to the surface.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Total internal reflection · See more »

Transmit (file transfer tool)

Transmit is a file transfer program for macOS.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Transmit (file transfer tool) · See more »

Transmittance

Transmittance of the surface of a material is its effectiveness in transmitting radiant energy.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Transmittance · See more »

Transparency and translucency

In the field of optics, transparency (also called pellucidity or diaphaneity) is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material without being scattered.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Transparency and translucency · See more »

Transparency meter

A transparency meter, also called a clarity meter, is an instrument used to measure the transparency of an object.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Transparency meter · See more »

Transparent ceramics

Many ceramic materials, both glassy and crystalline, have found use as optically transparent materials in various forms from bulk solid-state components to high surface area forms such as thin films, coatings, and fibers.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Transparent ceramics · See more »

Transparent conducting film

Transparent conducting films (TCFs) are thin films of optically transparent and electrically conductive material.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Transparent conducting film · See more »

Turbidity

Turbidity is the cloudiness or haziness of a fluid caused by large numbers of individual particles that are generally invisible to the naked eye, similar to smoke in air.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Turbidity · See more »

Ultraviolet

Ultraviolet (UV) is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength from 10 nm to 400 nm, shorter than that of visible light but longer than X-rays.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Ultraviolet · See more »

Valence and conduction bands

In solid-state physics, the valence band and conduction band are the bands closest to the Fermi level and thus determine the electrical conductivity of the solid.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Valence and conduction bands · See more »

Valence electron

In chemistry, a valence electron is an outer shell electron that is associated with an atom, and that can participate in the formation of a chemical bond if the outer shell is not closed; in a single covalent bond, both atoms in the bond contribute one valence electron in order to form a shared pair.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Valence electron · See more »

Vibration

Vibration is a mechanical phenomenon whereby oscillations occur about an equilibrium point.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Vibration · See more »

Visible spectrum

The visible spectrum is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Visible spectrum · See more »

Water

Water is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance that is the main constituent of Earth's streams, lakes, and oceans, and the fluids of most living organisms.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Water · See more »

Waveguide

A waveguide is a structure that guides waves, such as electromagnetic waves or sound, with minimal loss of energy by restricting expansion to one dimension or two.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Waveguide · See more »

Wavelength

In physics, the wavelength is the spatial period of a periodic wave—the distance over which the wave's shape repeats.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Wavelength · See more »

Yttrium aluminium garnet

Yttrium aluminium garnet (YAG, Y3Al5O12) is a synthetic crystalline material of the garnet group.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Yttrium aluminium garnet · See more »

Yttrium(III) oxide

Yttrium oxide, also known as yttria, is Y2O3.

New!!: Transparency and translucency and Yttrium(III) oxide · See more »

Redirects here:

Clear (color), Clear (colour), Diaphaneity, Diaphanes, Diaphanous, Diaphanously, Optical transparency, Pellucid, Pellucidity, Pellucidness, See-through, Translucence, Translucency, Translucent, Translucently, Translucid, Translucidities, Translucidity, Translucidly, Transparency & translucency, Transparency (optics), Transparent Materials, Transparent material, Transparent materials, Transparente.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_and_translucency

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »