iceland spar

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Ice=land spar

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun iceland spar has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

iceland spar,  
     A transparent variety of calcite, the best of which is obtained in Iceland. It is used for the prisms of the polariscope, because of its strong double refraction. Cf. Calcite.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

iceland spar, n. a transparent variety of calcite with the optical property of strong double refraction.


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