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Noun Concept

Categories: Optics, Optical phenomena, Articles with short description, Color

opalescence iridescence Chromatic shift goniochromism iridescent

The visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface WordNet 3.0

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The visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Iridescence is the phenomenon of certain surfaces that appear to gradually change colour as the angle of view or the angle of illumination changes. Wikipedia

Property in which fine colors, changeable with the angle of view or angle of illumination, are produced on a surface by the interference of light that is reflected from both the front and back of a thin film Wikidata

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brightness

optical phenomenon

optical property

structural coloration

PART OF

structural coloration

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