adjective. Tending to become dispersed.

adjective. Tending to produce dispersion.

Pertaining to dispersion; dispersing; separating and scattering.

adjective. Tending to disperse.

adjective. the relative effect of a material in separating the different rays of light by refraction, as when the substance is formed into a prism.

adjective. That becomes dispersed

adjective. That causes dispersion

adjective. spreading by diffusion

"Now let a prism be placed in the path of such rays of different wave length from a single molecule, and what is called the dispersive action of the prism will separate the rays in the order of their wave lengths, the longer waves being less refracted than the shorter ones; but the energy of any one of these will depend upon the _amplitude of undulation_, which in turn will depend upon the amplitude of vibration of the part of the molecule that originated it, but in general the longer waves have greater amplitude, though not necessarily so."

distributive  

dispersive line  dispersive mass transfer  dispersive medium  dispersive power  

coercive  discursive  subversive  

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