The Crossword Solver found 20 answers to “Vital part of the stratosphere’s protective layer”, 5 letters crossword clue. The Crossword Solver finds answers to American-style crosswords, British-style crosswords, general knowledge crosswords and cryptic crossword puzzles.
Answer : PRISM
Prism, in optics, piece of glass or other transparent material cut with precise angles and plane faces, useful for analyzing and reflecting light. An ordinary triangular prism can separate white light into its constituent colours, called a spectrum. Each colour, or wavelength, making up the white light is bent, or refracted, a different amount; the shorter wavelengths (those toward the violet end of the spectrum) are bent the most, and the longer wavelengths (those toward the red end of the spectrum) are bent the least. Prisms of this kind are used in certain spectroscopes, instruments for analyzing light and for determining the identity and structure of materials that emit or absorb light.
Prisms are made in many different forms and shapes, depending on the application. The Porro prism, for example, consists of two prisms arranged both to invert and to reverse an image and are used in many optical viewing instruments, such as periscopes, binoculars, and monoculars. The Nicol prism consists of two specially cut calcite prisms bonded together with an adhesive known as Canada balsam. This prism transmits waves vibrating in one direction only and thus produces a plane-polarized beam from ordinary light.
More Clues
- OZONE Vital part of the stratosphere’s protective layer
- TROPOPAUSE Stratosphere’s starting point
- AIRS Stratospheres
- ATMOSPHERES Stratospheres
- ORGAN Vital part of the body is twisted – groan!
- AORTA A type lacking sun on a vital part of the body
- PRISM Vital part of
- ESCAPEMENT A vital part of the mechanism of a timepiece
- TENNIS The noise from court? It is a vital part of the game
- RACKET The noise from court? It is a vital part of the game
- ORGANDIE Material to cause vital part of the anatomy to expire
- TOTE Keep a vital part of the war effort
- EVITA Some of the vital parts of a well-known musical
- SEEDS Of plants: embryonic structures with a protective layer
- DAVIT Some need a vital piece of equipment to lower a lifeboat
- MULCH Protective layer on garden bed
- CALYX Protective layer around flower bud
- COVER Add a protective layer, … with a sheet
- HEART Try and try to lose railway”s vital part
- LINER Protective layer
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