tyndall effect

1. 1.

   the phenomenon in which light is scattered by very small particles in its path; it makes a beam of light visible; the scattered light is mainly blue

   Broaderoptical phenomenon

Questions about tyndall effect

What does tyndall effect mean?

tyndall effect means "the phenomenon in which light is scattered by very small particles in its path; it makes a beam of light visible; the scattered light is mainly blue".

Is tyndall effect a common word?

tyndall effect is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.