opalic

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See also: opalić

English

Etymology

From opal +‎ -ic.

Adjective

opalic (not comparable)

  1. Having a structure similar to that of opal
    • 2016, Clotilde Lethiec, Guillaume Binard, Trajan Popescu, Hugo Frederich, Phan Ngoc, Eduardo Yraola, Catherine Schwob, Fabrice Charra, Laurent Coolen, Ludovic Douillard, Agnès Maître, “Plasmonics of opalic surface: a combined near-and far-field approach”, in arXiv:
      An opalic plasmonic sample, constituted by a hexagonal arrangement of metallized silica spheres, presents remarkable optical properties due to the mixing of periodic arrangement and singularities at the sphere touching points.