Meaning & use
nematic
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Describing a liquid-crystal state in which rod-shaped molecules point in the same direction but are not arranged in ordered layers.
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The display relies on a nematic liquid crystal layer to control how light passes through each pixel.
Researchers tracked the nematic phase transition of the compound as temperature increased.
A note on using this word
The term comes from the Greek "nema," meaning thread, describing the thread-like defects visible under a microscope.
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