English Explanatory Dictionary

Tyndall blue

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The bluish polarized light scattered in the Tyndall effect.

Word forms

Tyndall blue

Etymology

After John Tyndall, a 19th-century British physicist who first explained the effect and the resulting color.

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