English Explanatory Dictionary

melatope

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An eye shape of concentric coloured optical fringes seen on a conoscopic interference pattern surrounding an optical axis. For biaxial minerals there are a pair of circles, like eyes.

Word forms

melatope melatopes

Etymology

Coined by A. Johannsen on page 420 in A Manual of Petrographic Methods McGraw-Hill 1918

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