opalescent

• Her flesh is opalescent, and she calls poor WEBSTER to her. —  Smoke and Mirrors, by Neil Gaiman.
• In dental applications, ceramics are valued for their opalescent color and translucence. —  Digital50.com Digital 50 Daily Industry News RSS Feed
• Other glass imitations, such as the opal, have a tolerably good representation of the "fiery" opal given to them by the admixture, in the glass, of a little oxide of tin, which makes it somewhat opalescent, and in the setting is placed a backing of red, gold, copper, or fiery-coloured tinsel, whilst the glass itself, at the back, is painted very thinly with a paint composed of well washed and dried fish-scales, reduced to an impalpable powder, mixed with a little pure, refined mastic, or other colourless varnish. —  The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
• When these streaks pass across the star-like radiations they give the stone the appearance of an eye, the rays forming the iris, the clear, opalescent, or black streak closely resembling the slit in a cat's eye, and when these stones are cut en cabochon_, that is, dome-shaped (see Chapter XI. —  The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
• An opalescent, slightly tinted discharge is composed of mucus and indicates a little more severe irritation. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

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