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Lowitz arc

  [loh-vits] .
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–noun
Arc of Lowitz.
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Arc of Lowitz

  [loh-vits]
–noun Meteorology.
a halo or arc of light, occurring infrequently, which extends diagonally downward from a 22° parhelion.
Also, Lowitz arc.

Origin:
named after Tobias Lowitz (1757-1804), German-born chemist, who published a description of a halo display observed in St. Petersburg in 1790
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