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87 relations: Alcohol, Ammolite, Ammonoidea, Amplitude modulation, Anisotropy, Anodizing, Aurora, Automotive paint, BBC Online, Biological pigment, Bioluminescence, Biomimetics, Bird-of-paradise, Bismuth, Bismuth(III) oxide, Butterfly, Catfish, Chromatophore, Cloud iridescence, Color, Compact disc, Dichroic filter, Dichroism, Diffraction, Diffraction grating, Duck, Dye, Eye, Fabry–Pérot interferometer, Feather, Gasoline, Genitive case, Glitter, Goethite, Grackle, Gradient, Greek language, Greek mythology, Haliotis iris, Holography, Hue, Hummingbird, Hydrocarbon, Iris (mythology), Iron(III) oxide-hydroxide, Kingfisher, Kolhapur day gecko, L'Oréal, Labradorite, Light, ..., Linkin Park, Micrographia, Morpho didius, Motor oil, Nacre, Nail polish, Nanocellulose, Neon tetra, Nicobar pigeon, Opal, Opalescence, Optical phenomena, Parrot, Peafowl, Pearlescent coating, Phase (waves), Photonic crystal, Pigment, Polk County, Arkansas, Prism, Rainbow, Rainbow boa, Rainbow Pyrite, Robert Hooke, Seashell, Selaginella, Soap bubble, Stag beetle, Starling, Striated muscle tissue, Structural coloration, Swarovski, Tachinidae, Tapetum lucidum, Thin-film interference, Thin-film optics, Wave interference. Expand index (37 more) »
Alcohol
In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which the hydroxyl functional group (–OH) is bound to a carbon.
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Ammolite
Ammolite is an opal-like organic gemstone found primarily along the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains of North America.
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Ammonoidea
Ammonoids are an extinct group of marine mollusc animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda.
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Amplitude modulation
Amplitude modulation (AM) is a modulation technique used in electronic communication, most commonly for transmitting information via a radio carrier wave.
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Anisotropy
Anisotropy, is the property of being directionally dependent, which implies different properties in different directions, as opposed to isotropy.
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Anodizing
Anodizing (spelled anodising in British English) is an electrolytic passivation process used to increase the thickness of the natural oxide layer on the surface of metal parts.
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Aurora
An aurora (plural: auroras or aurorae), sometimes referred to as polar lights, northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in the Earth's sky, predominantly seen in the high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic).
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Automotive paint
Automotive paint is paint used on automobiles for both protection and decoration purposes.
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BBC Online
BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.
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Biological pigment
Biological pigments, also known simply as pigments or biochromes, are substances produced by living organisms that have a color resulting from selective color absorption.
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Bioluminescence
Bioluminescence is the production and emission of light by a living organism.
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Biomimetics
Biomimetics or biomimicry is the imitation of the models, systems, and elements of nature for the purpose of solving complex human problems.
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Bird-of-paradise
The birds-of-paradise are members of the family Paradisaeidae of the order Passeriformes.
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Bismuth
Bismuth is a chemical element with symbol Bi and atomic number 83.
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Bismuth(III) oxide
Bismuth(III) oxide is perhaps the most industrially important compound of bismuth.
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Butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths.
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Catfish
Catfish (or catfishes; order Siluriformes or Nematognathi) are a diverse group of ray-finned fish.
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Chromatophore
Chromatophores are pigment-containing and light-reflecting cells, or groups of cells, found in a wide range of animals including amphibians, fish, reptiles, crustaceans and cephalopods.
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Cloud iridescence
Cloud iridescence is a colorful optical phenomenon that occurs in a cloud and appears in the general proximity of the Sun or Moon.
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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.
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Compact disc
Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982.
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Dichroic filter
A dichroic filter, thin-film filter, or interference filter is a very accurate color filter used to selectively pass light of a small range of colors while reflecting other colors.
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Dichroism
In optics, a dichroic material is either one which causes visible light to be split up into distinct beams of different wavelengths (colours) (not to be confused with dispersion), or one in which light rays having different polarizations are absorbed by different amounts.
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Diffraction
--> Diffraction refers to various phenomena that occur when a wave encounters an obstacle or a slit.
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Diffraction grating
In optics, a diffraction grating is an optical component with a periodic structure that splits and diffracts light into several beams travelling in different directions.
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Duck
Duck is the common name for a large number of species in the waterfowl family Anatidae, which also includes swans and geese.
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Dye
A dye is a colored substance that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is being applied.
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Eye
Eyes are organs of the visual system.
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Fabry–Pérot interferometer
In optics, a Fabry–Pérot interferometer (FPI) or etalon is typically made of a transparent plate with two reflecting surfaces, or two parallel highly reflecting mirrors.
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Feather
Feathers are epidermal growths that form the distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on birds and other, extinct species' of dinosaurs.
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Gasoline
Gasoline (American English), or petrol (British English), is a transparent, petroleum-derived liquid that is used primarily as a fuel in spark-ignited internal combustion engines.
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Genitive case
In grammar, the genitive (abbreviated); also called the second case, is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun.
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Glitter
Glitter describes an assortment of small, colourful, reflective particles that comes in a variety of shapes.
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Goethite
Goethite (FeO(OH)) is an iron bearing hydroxide mineral of the diaspore group.
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Grackle
Grackle is the common name of any of eleven passerine birds native to North and South America.
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Gradient
In mathematics, the gradient is a multi-variable generalization of the derivative.
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Greek language
Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
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Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.
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Haliotis iris
Haliotis iris, common name paua, blackfoot paua or rainbow abalone, is a species of edible sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalones.
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Holography
Holography is the science and practice of making holograms.
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Hue
Hue is one of the main properties (called color appearance parameters) of a color, defined technically (in the CIECAM02 model), as "the degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar to or different from stimuli that are described as red, green, blue, and yellow", (which in certain theories of color vision are called unique hues).
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Hummingbird
Hummingbirds are birds from the Americas that constitute the family Trochilidae.
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Hydrocarbon
In organic chemistry, a hydrocarbon is an organic compound consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon.
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Iris (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Iris (Ἶρις) is the personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods.
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Iron(III) oxide-hydroxide
A number of chemicals are dubbed iron(III) oxide-hydroxide.
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Kingfisher
Kingfishers or Alcedinidae are a family of small to medium-sized, brightly colored birds in the order Coraciiformes.
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Kolhapur day gecko
The Kolhapur day gecko (Cnemaspis kolhapurensis) is a species of gecko described from the hills in Kolhapur in Maharashtra, India.
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L'Oréal
L'Oréal S.A. is a French personal care company headquartered in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine with a registered office in Paris.
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Labradorite
Labradorite ((Ca, Na)(Al, Si)4O8), a feldspar mineral, is an intermediate to calcic member of the plagioclase series.
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Light
Light is electromagnetic radiation within a certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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Linkin Park
Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California.
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Micrographia
Micrographia: or Some Phyſiological Deſcriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses.
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Morpho didius
Morpho didius, the giant blue morpho, is a Neotropical butterfly belonging to the subfamily Morphinae of family Nymphalidae.
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Motor oil
Motor oil, engine oil, or engine lubricant is any of various substances comprising base oils enhanced with additives, particularly antiwear additive plus detergents, dispersants and, for multi-grade oils viscosity index improvers.
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Nacre
Nacre (also), also known as mother of pearl, is an organic-inorganic composite material produced by some molluscs as an inner shell layer; it also makes up the outer coating of pearls.
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Nail polish
Nail polish (also known as nail varnish) is a lacquer that can be applied to the human fingernail or toenails to decorate and protect the nail plates.
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Nanocellulose
Nanocellulose is a term referring to nano-structured cellulose.
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Neon tetra
The neon tetra (Paracheirodon innesi) is a freshwater fish of the characin family (family Characidae) of order Characiformes.
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Nicobar pigeon
The Nicobar pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica) is a pigeon found on small islands and in coastal regions from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, east through the Malay Archipelago, to the Solomons and Palau.
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Opal
Opal is a hydrated amorphous form of silica (SiO2·nH2O); its water content may range from 3 to 21% by weight, but is usually between 6 and 10%.
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Opalescence
Opalescence is a type of dichroism seen in highly dispersed systems with little opacity.
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Optical phenomena
Optical phenomena are any observable events that result from the interaction of light and matter.
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Parrot
Parrots, also known as psittacines, are birds of the roughly 393 species in 92 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most tropical and subtropical regions.
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Peafowl
The peafowl include three species of birds in the genera Pavo and Afropavo of the Phasianidae family, the pheasants and their allies.
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Pearlescent coating
Pearlescent coatings or pigments possess optical effects that not only serve decorative purposes (such as cosmetics, printed products, industrial coatings, or automotive paints), but also provide important functional roles, such as security printing or optical filters.
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Phase (waves)
Phase is the position of a point in time (an instant) on a waveform cycle.
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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.
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Pigment
A pigment is a material that changes the color of reflected or transmitted light as the result of wavelength-selective absorption.
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Polk County, Arkansas
Polk County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas.
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Prism
In optics, a prism is a transparent optical element with flat, polished surfaces that refract light.
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Rainbow
A rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky.
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Rainbow boa
Epicrates cenchria is a boa species endemic to Central and South America.
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Rainbow Pyrite
Rainbow pyrite from Russia Rainbow pyrite, also known as iridescent pyrite, is a variety of pyrite (FeS2) which is colored the colors of the rainbow by small traces of molybdenum, and its iridescence is caused by oxidation.
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Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke FRS (– 3 March 1703) was an English natural philosopher, architect and polymath.
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Seashell
A seashell or sea shell, also known simply as a shell, is a hard, protective outer layer created by an animal that lives in the sea.
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Selaginella
Selaginella is the sole genus of primitive vascular plants in the family Selaginellaceae, the spikemosses or lesser clubmosses.
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Soap bubble
A soap bubble is an extremely thin film of soapy water enclosing air that forms a hollow sphere with an iridescent surface.
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Stag beetle
Stag beetles are a group of about 1,200 species of beetles in the family Lucanidae, presently classified in four subfamilies.
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Starling
Starlings are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Sturnidae.
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Striated muscle tissue
Striated muscle tissue is a muscle tissue that features repeating functional units called sarcomeres, in contrast with smooth muscle tissue which does not.
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Structural coloration
Structural coloration is the production of colour by microscopically structured surfaces fine enough to interfere with visible light, sometimes in combination with pigments.
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Swarovski
Swarovski is an Austrian producer of lead glass (commonly called crystal) headquartered in Wattens, Austria.
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Tachinidae
The Tachinidae are a large and variable family of true flies within the insect order Diptera, with more than 8,200 known species and many more to be discovered.
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Tapetum lucidum
The tapetum lucidum (Latin: "bright tapestry; coverlet", plural tapeta lucida) is a layer of tissue in the eye of many vertebrates.
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Thin-film interference
Thin-film interference is a natural phenomenon in which light waves reflected by the upper and lower boundaries of a thin film interfere with one another, either enhancing or reducing the reflected light.
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Thin-film optics
Thin-film optics is the branch of optics that deals with very thin structured layers of different materials.
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Wave interference
In physics, interference is a phenomenon in which two waves superpose to form a resultant wave of greater, lower, or the same amplitude.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridescence
