Cotton-Mouton effect

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Named after Aimé Cotton and Henri Mouton who discovered the effect in 1905.

Noun[edit]

Cotton-Mouton effect (plural Cotton-Mouton effects)

  1. (physics, uncommon) The birefringence in a liquid in the presence of a constant transverse magnetic field.

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