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Refractive properties of materials?
I've just read this article about meta-materials with 0-refractive index, which potentially may "permit" light with super-luminous rate /under rate is meant the propagation of light's phase, which ...
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Why are there no cheap diamond equivalents?
We recently learned in school that diamonds sparkle as the are very optically dense, meaning that it takes longer for light to pass through them, thus meaning that the light totally internally ...
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Why do different impurities create different colors in diamonds?
Traces of nitrogen make diamonds yellow while traces of boron make them blue. What accounts for the differences in color for a given element?
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