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amici prism

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A⋅mi⋅ci prism

[uh-mee-chee]
–noun Optics.
a compound prism that spreads out incident white light into a spectrum but produces no deviation of the central color of the dispersed beam.


Origin:
named after G. B. Amici (1784–1863), Italian astronomer
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