TYNDALL EFFECT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The phenomenon in which light is scattered by very small particles in its path; it makes a beam of light visible; the scattered light is mainly blue

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Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("Tyndall effect" is a kind of...):

optical phenomenon (a physical phenomenon related to or involving light)

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