reflectins

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A form of reflectin — A protein, found in certain squids, that self-organizes into a film of regularly spaced stripes, the separation of which functions as a tunable diffraction grating to produce a range of reflective colours in the animal's skin

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of reflectin
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