magnetic rotation

noun

, Optics.

First recorded in 1899–1900

But he showed that a still more profound distinction exists between the magnetic rotation and the natural one.

The fact of such magnetic rotation was discovered by Faraday.

The magnetic rotation of the plane of polarized light, discovered by Faraday, implies an actual rotatory motion of something.

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