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Noun: Tyndall  tin-d(u)l
  1. British physicist (born in Ireland) remembered for his experiments on the transparency of gases and the absorption of radiant heat by gases and the transmission of sound through the atmosphere; he was the first person to explain why the daylight sky is blue (1820-1893)
    - John Tyndall

Type of: physicist

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