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Optical Properties of Minerals in Plane Polarized Light (PPL)

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This chapter is concerned with the optical parameters color (Sect. 4.1), habit/form (Sect. 4.2), relief (Sect. 4.3), and cleavage (Sect. 4.4). They are determined in plane polarized light in the so-called orthoscopic illumination mode. The polarizer in the substage assembly forces the light rays from the light source to vibrate in one plane perpendicular to the microscopic stage, and plane polarized light is produced.

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Schmidt, S.T. (2023). Optical Properties of Minerals in Plane Polarized Light (PPL). In: Transmitted Light Microscopy of Rock-Forming Minerals . Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19612-6_4

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