Chapter 15

Adding together two colors of light to give a different color.

Small amounts of identifiable material from a specific location that can indicate with relatively high accuracy information about the location from which they originated.

An amorphous material composed primarily of silicon dioxide.

A form of safety glass where a piece of clear plastic or resin is sandwiched or “laminated” between two pieces of glass.

Properties that are the same no matter how much material is present in the sample.

Properties that can be measured only by attempting to change the chemical identity of the material itself through some sort of chemical transformation.

The way that our eyes and brain perceive different wavelengths of light in the visible range.

Properties that can be measured without changing chemical identity of a material.

The portion of paint, consisting of very tiny particles of organic and inorganic colored compounds, that gives the paint its characteristic hue.

Materials that can be molded; today they are most often made from high molecular weight polymeric compounds.

Fractures in glass that form rings that approximately circle the point of impact.

Defined as the amount of mass of a material contained in a particular unit of volume, or d = m/V.

See “Stress-induced striations”.

A soluble compound that binds directly to the surface and does not require any medium to bind the colored material to the surface.

The detailed study of the Earth and its materials along with the physical processes that act upon them.

Method for producing flat glass where a layer of molten glass comes out of a furnace as a continuous sheet that is then floated onto a bed of molten metal, most often tin.

A method for approximating the density of a sample by determining the density of a liquid upon which the sample will float.

Properties that change if the amount of material in the sample changes.

A double refraction phenomenon in certain crystalline materials where the refractive index is different depending upon which direction the light goes through the crystal.

The halo observed at the edges of a solid, transparent sample when in a liquid with a higher RI than that of the sample. An optical phenomenon used in measuring the refractive index of an object.

Glass with boron oxide added to the silica to improve ability to withstand rapid changes in temperature.

A method to determine the volume of an irregularly shaped object by determining the mass of the water (or liquid) displaced by the submerged object.

The portion of paint that suspends the pigment particles and helps to firmly fix them to the surface.

Extend or “radiate” outwards from the central point of impact, producing a star-like pattern.