ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Chlorophane

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Chlorophane is a noun meaning (mineralogy) A variety of fluorspar, which, when heated, gives a striking emerald-green light.

Meaning

(mineralogy) A variety of fluorspar, which, when heated, gives a striking emerald-green light.

More Meanings

  1. (biology) The yellowish-green pigment in the inner segment of the cones of the retina.

Example Sentences

CHLOROPHANE. The Amelia Court House, Va., locality yields a bluegreen fluorescing chlorophane. Kunz and Baskerville qualitatively studied the emission from Chlorophane in 1903. (See also the discussion for Fluorite which is also […]
the light from chlorophane is incomparably less intense than that from a common lamp. For there can be no doubt that each of the ten discharges gave a light which lasted brilliantly for six seconds, and upon the whole was equal in duration […]
Chlorophane is the name given to those varieties of Fluorite (Fluorspar Calcium Fluoride), which possess to a noticeable extent the property of “thermo-luminosity ," that is to say, of spontaneous_' emitting light when heated. The temperature […]

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fluorspar, chloropal, fluorophlogopite, chromphyllite, leucophane, leucophanite.

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