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Cotton-Mouton effect
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English
Etymology
Named after Aimé Cotton and Henri Mouton who discovered the effect in 1905.
Noun
en physics uncommon The birefringence in a liquid in the presence of a constant transverse magnetic field.
Further reading
en eponyms
en Optics