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THE phenomena exhibited by selenite are also produced by other crystals, but the facility with which plates of the former substance can be obtained, causes them to be generally used in preference to others. There is, however, a peculiar class of crystals, of which quartz, or rock crystal, is the most notable, which gives rise to effects different from those hitherto described.
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SPOTTISWOODE, W. Polarisation of Light * . Nature 9, 282–285 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009282c0
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