Milky iridescence

Usage examples of opalescence.

The rays of the setting sun, breaking through the gap between hedge and ground, elicited a dazzling chromatic display of coruscation and opalescence on the surface of the watery spheres as though to make amends for the dingy gray of the hueless Martian twilight.

But this balance is disturbed in the presence of much nitre, the indications with baric chloride being disturbed by an opalescence for some c.

It was alive with swirling color, an intermingling of writhing, prismatic flames and subtle and everchanging shades of darkness, an eddying opalescence that seemed always about to coalesce into a picture, yet never did.

Now I could see clearly that nucleus, that core shot through with flashing veins of radiance, that ever-shifting shape of glory through the shroudings of shimmering, misty plumes, throbbing lacy opalescences, vaporous spirallings of prismatic phantom fires.

He gave me a seashell, pale, white, gleaming with opalescence like a daintier, pinker version of abalone shell.

Opalescence swirled like slow smoke in walls and ceilings, except for the fourth wall, which stood open on a balcony.

Tangled in the trees at the crest of the hill hung a pale lavender mist, shot through with opalescence.

By the strange pearled opalescence of her nails, the delicacy of her tiny, ice-pale fingers, no bigger than his own.

It was posited at the time that Heptite Guild members, protected by their symbiont, would be safe from the infection which had killed the original exploratory team exposed to the opalescence - "Fluid metal, Guild Master," Rudney said, "is a more accurate term for the material - FM for short.