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)
- (physics, uncommon) The birefringence in a liquid in the presence of a constant transverse magnetic field.
Further reading[edit]
- Cotton-Mouton effect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia