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    Double refraction is an optical property where a ray of light entering an anisotropic medium splits into two rays that travel in different directions - an ordinary ray that passes through unchanged and an extraordinary ray that is refracted at an angle. This can be observed using a pencil mark on paper covered by glass, which shows one image, versus calcite crystal, which orients to show two separate marks. The phenomenon occurs as light enters the crystal face, splitting the incident ray into the ordinary and extraordinary rays.

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    Double refraction is an optical property where a ray of light entering an anisotropic medium splits into two rays that travel in different directions - an ordinary ray that passes through unchanged and an extraordinary ray that is refracted at an angle. This can be observed using a pencil mark on paper covered by glass, which shows one image, versus calcite crystal, which orients to show two separate marks. The phenomenon occurs as light enters the crystal face, splitting the incident ray into the ordinary and extraordinary rays.

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    Double refraction is an optical property where a ray of light entering an anisotropic medium splits into two rays that travel in different directions - an ordinary ray that passes through unchanged and an extraordinary ray that is refracted at an angle. This can be observed using a pencil mark on paper covered by glass, which shows one image, versus calcite crystal, which orients to show two separate marks. The phenomenon occurs as light enters the crystal face, splitting the incident ray into the ordinary and extraordinary rays.

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    Double refraction

    Double refraction, also called birefringence, an optical property in


    which a single ray of un polarized light entering an anisotropic
    medium is split into two rays, each traveling in a different direction.
    One ray (called the extraordinary ray) is bent, or refracted, at an angle
    as it travels through the medium; the other ray (called the ordinary
    ray) passes through the medium unchanged.

    Double refraction can be observed by comparing two


    materials, glass and calcite. If a pencil mark is drawn upon a
    sheet of paper and then covered with a piece of glass, only
    one image will be seen; but if the same paper is covered with
    a piece of calcite, and the crystal is oriented in a specific
    direction, then two marks will become visible.

    The Figure shows the phenomenon of double refraction


    through a calcite crystal. An incident ray is seen to split into
    the ordinary ray CO and the extraordinary ray CE upon
    entering the crystal face at C. If the incident ray enters the
    crystal along the direction of its optic axis, however, the light
    ray will not become divided.

    Anisotropic material changes its properties in different


    directions.

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