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circularly polarized light
n. (context physics English) Light (or other electromagnetic radiation) whose electric or displacement vector rotates in a plane perpendicular to the propagation direction with constant angular velocity
Usage examples of "circularly polarized light".
Like amino acids, circularly polarized light comes in either left or right orientations, and will preferentially break up molecules of the opposite hand.
Researchers using the Anglo-Australian Telescope have found star-forming regions bathed in circularly polarized light, and we may owe our existence to the sun itself being formed in such a region.