Concept information
Preferred term
Refractive index
Definition
- 1. Measure of the bending of a ray of light when passing from one medium into another. (Britannica). 2. Determines the speed by which light travels through a medium other than a vacuum (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK592413/). 3. An optical medium is the ratio of the apparent speed of light in the air or vacuum to the speed in the medium. (Wikipedia)
Broader concept
URI
https://purls.helmholtz-metadaten.de/evoks/sdv/RefractiveIndex
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