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refracting

Serving or tending to refract; as, a refracting medium.

(Science: optics) Refracting angle of a prism See telescope.


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Re: What in the world??!?

... back to the same patch of flowers day after day giving ample opportunity to check them out. Additionally, it has eyes typical of a nocturnal moth (refracting superposition compound eye) but is diurnal. Because they do their business in the daytime, their eyes have evolved to include qualities not ...

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by redheadache
Tue Aug 11, 2009 5:36 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: What in the world??!?
Replies: 14
Views: 2967

Re: Natural selection is proven wrong

... of life. c. All dissenters within these systems will be hushed or eliminated. I leave you with this thought though--a telescope operates by refracting light to a focal point and thereby magnifying the observed object, but it was not made by these principles. Neither can we interpret or explain ...

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by AFJ
Sun May 03, 2009 5:07 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16813

The Fiber Disease

... in paper/foundry/welding/textile/oil and gas well related industries, as well as from the use of Ba as an atmospheric aerosol spray for enhancing/refracting the signalling of radio/radar waves along military jet flight paths, missile test ranges, etc. It is proposed that chronic contamination ...

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by Skytroll
Fri Aug 11, 2006 4:28 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
Replies: 7403
Views: 749642

Eye Power????

... is where light travels through and ultimately rests on the retina as it is refracted (bending light) so it focuses on the retina. The power of the refracting surfaces (cornea and crystalline lens) have to be proportional to the axial length so the images can focus sharply on the retina. A slight ...

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by kiekyon
Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:37 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Eye Power????
Replies: 7
Views: 1257

Strange Range!!!

... it...[ in terms of relative flux densities..?] ANd how we say that blue and green reach the 'bottom' algae... red travels most deep due to lower refracting index of h2o for red than other visible wavelengths... and infrared would have lesser energy...[ obviously in evolution just one reason isn't ...

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by 2810712
Sat Apr 01, 2006 2:38 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Strange Range!!!
Replies: 4
Views: 1113


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