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schliere

Variant of schlieren

plural noun sing. schliere

  1. small streaks or masses in igneous rocks, differing in composition from the main rock but blending gradually into it
  2. Optics regions in a translucent medium, as a fluid, that have a different density and consequently a different index of refraction than the medium and that can be photographed as shadows produced by the refraction of light passed through these regions

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