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IT is a well-known fact that a beam of light reflected obliquely by a dark glass mirror is elliptically polarised, the maximum electric vector being perpendicular to the plane of the incident and reflected rays. A metallic mirror, perfectly or imperfectly polished, gives a very weak polarisation.
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COSYNS, M. A New Polarisation Phenomenon. Nature 137, 70 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137070b0
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