Sentence examples for refracting light from inspiring English sources

Look one way from the Mount of Olives and you see the golden walls of the Old City, refracting light.

The spectrum, obtained by refracting light through a prism, shows a number of characteristic regions of colour red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

The liquid was refracting light as if it were made of solid, frangible crystals, and yet it could be poured from a beaker.

Bell's cubes have oddly magical properties; they change as you look at them, bending and refracting light, and occasionally they appear to house a cloud plucked out of the sky.

Refracting light through a prism is a common feature in nature, as in a rainbow.

There are various ways by which this can be accomplished, for example, by either reflecting or refracting light.

Although largely unknown to consumers, mica is highly valued for its ability to reflect and refract light.

The subway vault lights were developed by the American Luxfer Prism Company of Chicago, which also sold transoms and projecting canopies with ridged glass to refract light inside.

When the actors walk on it, the see-through surface gives slightly and refracted light ripples across the shadows they cast on the screen behind.

In parallel with the revolutionary development of rudimentary geometric sculpture, in industrial materials, by the minimalists Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, and others, in New York, Southern California artists were creating sleek forms, in plastics or glass, which shimmered with color and reflected or refracted light.

The formation of soluble alkalies at the surface can cause a flaking of thin layers there, resulting in layers that become detached and reflect and refract light differently from that of the glass body.