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wollaston's doublet
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wollaston's doublet, [After W. H. Wollaston , English physicist.].
A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.
"Under "wollastonite" the eponymous inventor is described as a chemist." [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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