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opalescence

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opalescence [‚ō·pə′les·əns]
(optics)
The milky, iridescent appearance of a dense, transparent medium or colloidal system when it is illuminated by polychromatic radiation in the visible range, such as sunlight.


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Westward, the wiry boughs of the bare thorn hedge which formed the boundary of the field rose against the pale opalescence of the lower sky.
 
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