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← ScienceWhich outcome results from destructive interference in birefringent material?
A)Stress-induced color fringe formation✓
B)Enhanced refractive index uniformity
C)Increased material tensile strength
D)Reduced thermal expansion coefficient
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Stress causes local variations in refractive index, which induces birefringence. Incident polarized light splits into orthogonal components with differing velocities, causing interference. This interference creates color fringes where stress concentrates because the varying path differences alter polarization, therefore producing visible color variations, rather than uniform refractive index.
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