Meanings
nounCotton-Mouton effect (plural Cotton-Mouton effects)
plural Cotton-Mouton effects
- uncommonnatural sciencesThe birefringence in a liquid in the presence of a constant transverse magnetic field.
Origin
Named after Aimé Cotton and Henri Mouton who discovered the effect in 1905.
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