The birefringence of a mineral is the difference between its largest and its smallest principal refractive indices: in absolute value for a uniaxial mineral, for a biaxial one. In a grain cut in any other direction, the difference lies between 0 (a section perpendicular to an optic axis) and (a section containing the directions of and ).
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