English Explanatory Dictionary

Cotton-Mouton effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The birefringence in a liquid in the presence of a constant transverse magnetic field.

Word forms

Cotton-Mouton effect Cotton-Mouton effects

Etymology

Named after Aimé Cotton and Henri Mouton who discovered the effect in 1905.

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