opalescence

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In dusky colors often shot through with opalescence, they picture ordinary objects on flat surfaces — a shoe, a bowl, a paper bag — as if they were sacred relics.

From New York Times

Across the violet surface of the Mediterranean and the crystal opalescence of the evening sky the music fell voluptuously.

From Project Gutenberg

Color tends to a muted opalescence, but in “Moving,” in which she appears three times at about life size, dancing across a five-foot-wide canvas, an intense yellow glow suffuses and heats the image.

From New York Times

This term, derived from fluor-spar after the analogy of opalescence from opal, does not presuppose any theory.

From Project Gutenberg

His 1910 paper on "critical opalescence" helped confirm, among other things, what?

From BBC