"Dichroitic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... blue air is therefore untenable. In fact the agent, whatever it is, which sends us the light of the sky, exercises in so doing a dichroitic action. The light reflected is blue, the light transmitted is orange or red. A marked distinction is thus exhibited between the matter of the sky, and that of an ordinary cloud, which exercises ...
— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall |
