Definition of dichroic in English:
dichroic
adjective dʌɪˈkrəʊɪkdīˈkrōik
(of a crystal) showing different colours when viewed from different directions, or (more generally) having different absorption coefficients for light polarized in different directions.
Example sentencesExamples
- One common laboratory technique - the use of circularly polarized light in circular dichroic spectroscopy - optically records changes in protein secondary structure to study the dynamics within the biological system.
- Visual pigments, the molecules in photoreceptors that initiate the process of vision, are inherently dichroic, differentially absorbing light according to its axis of polarization.
- The light reflected by this dichroic mirror, is split into two separate paths with a polarizing beam splitter.
- Upon measuring the absorbance of a labeled peptide at a given angle of incidence, two different dichroic ratios were obtained.
- The angle between the diglucosamine ring plane and the membrane plane was determined by dichroic measurements using polarized IR light with oriented multilayers of the endotoxins.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Greek dikhroos (from di- 'twice' + khrōs 'colour') + -ic.