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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dent Mater. 2014 Sep 2;30(10):1195–1203. doi: 10.1016/j.dental.2014.08.375

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The interactions of light and zirconia. (a) Schematic of light transmission through tetragonal zirconia. Losses in intensity of the incident light are due to reflection at zirconia surfaces, and scattering by optical birefringence and at pores. Wavelength dependence of (b) the refractive index of tetragonal zirconia, and (c) theoretical transmission and reflection (at the surfaces).