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refract

verb as in bend

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Ions in the air act like drops of mist; they refract sunshine and make rainbows after rain.

In the Phædrus, which is the supplement of the Symposion, he made it refract something approaching the splendor of truth revealed.

Because they refract the rays of light in the same manner as the rain drops.

I must get these reds to balance, or the whole thing will never refract properly at all.

Ammoniacal copper sulphate forms with picric acid yellow-green crystals which strongly refract the light.

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