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The outer material that surrounds and protects the buffered...
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The higher throughput obtained with an FTIR device compared...
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A prism produced by severing a Nicol prism and...
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A continuous-wave dye laser that uses a circulation pump...
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wedge - An optical element having plane-inclined surfaces. Usually the faces are inclined toward one another at very small angles. Wedges divert light toward their thicker portions, and may be circular, oblong or square.

See also absorbing wedge; calibrated wedge; neutral density wedge.
 

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