Yes, sorry about that... I was actually talking about not being able to
measure the IOR of a non-refractive solid very easily...

(because it kinds of depends on the overall light interaction... for
example, crystaline substances)

Sorry about the misunderstanding there!!!  (typical of me, you know that, I
always seem to complicate things in one way or another... ;-)

--
Lance.


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Ken wrote in message <371735DE.99018A4D@pacbell.net>...
>Lance Birch wrote:
>>
>> Oh... I stand corrected (I thought it wasn't possible to accurately
messure
>> the IOR of a solid object because it is affected by the way in which the
>> original surface has been manufactured...)
>>
>> --
>> Lance.
>
>  What we have here is a Ying and Yang, white and black, yes an no, north
>and south, and live or die. You mentioned that it is not possible to
accuratly
>measure the incident angle of of reflection which prompted me to reply as I
did.
>Now you are back on the subject of measuring the ior values of non
refractive
>materials again. Let's pick one subject, discuss it, then move to the next
in
>turn so we both know what the heck we are replying to.
>
>P.S. I checked a list a couple of hours ago that listed the ior values of
over
>170 different materials and not one of those listed was a common metal
type.
>All were related in some way to crystaline structures and materials. i.e.
>quartz, glass, silicon carbide, salt, etc...
>
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>Ken Tyler
>
>mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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