opalescence

• “The ultra-microscopical vesicles filled with air in all probability give rise to the opalescence which is so marked a property of the substance.”

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887

• “Heat clothed this view with a kind of opalescence, a fairy garment, transmuting all values, so that the four square walls and tall chimneys of the pottery-works a few miles down the valley seemed to Courtier like a vision of some old fortified Italian town.”

  Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works

• “Heat clothed this view with a kind of opalescence, a fairy garment, transmuting all values, so that the four square walls and tall chimneys of the pottery-works a few miles down the valley seemed to Courtier like a vision of some old fortified”

  The Patrician

• “opalescence" is self-suggesting as to its origin, which is the "noble" or "precious" opal; this radiates brilliant and rapidly changing iridescent reflections of blue, green, yellow and red, all blending with, and coming out of, a curious silky and milky whiteness, which is altogether characteristic.”

  The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones

• “They passed down through the scintillant, magical sheen, their moccasins rhythmically crunching the snow and their breaths wreathing mysteriously from their lips in sprayed opalescence.”

  CHAPTER 14

• “Rather than wasting the malevolent opalescence, I suggest we exhaust current inventories by bathing in it like 30s starlets.”

  The Huffington Post: Will Durst: Don't Got Milk

• “I stroked them, their cool, smooth opalescence soothing me, as it always had for as far back as I could remember.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Dark Side of Innocence

• “Interestingly, both of these are considerably paler in color than typical French and Swiss absinthes but they do produce the well known "louche" or milky colored opalescence when water is added.”

  Boing Boing

• “The sky lifted and shone with a blue and pink opalescence, and the long view cleared enough to feel closer to it.”

  The Guardian: Country diary: Wenlock Edge

• “As I walk, I notice places where even footprints aren't required to see a blue/pink opalescence on the surface.”

  The Huffington Post: Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker"): A Beach Walk With the Ghosts of Exxon Valdez

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