refrangibility
/rɪˌfrændʒəˈbɪləti/
noun
- The quality of being able to be bent or broken, especially referring to light being split into different colors when passing through a prism.
- The refrangibility of white light explains how rainbows form.
- Scientists study the refrangibility of different materials to understand their optical properties.
- The prism experiment demonstrated the refrangibility of sunlight.