refraction
They are named after the people who discovered them and by their appearence.
The scientific name for bentwood is Thonet technique, named after Michael Thonet who invented the process of bending wood for furniture production in the 19th century.
The scientific name for an electric bulb is incandescent light bulb, named after the process of incandescence which produces light through heating a filament.
A quantum of light is named as " PHOTON" . It is a basic packet or a bundle from which a beam of light is made of!
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The aurora borealis, named after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for north wind, Boreas.
Scientific names are unique to one specific instance. For example - A Burmese python and an Indian python look very similar in colour and markings. Therefore the Burmese python has been given the scientific name 'Python bivittatus. The Indian python is named Python molurus.
It has no scientific name. It was named Pluto and that was that.
Auxins were discovered in the 1920s by Dutch scientist Frits Went while studying the effects of light on plant growth. Went observed that a substance produced by the plant's tip was responsible for its bending towards light, which he named auxin.
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Ancient people including Native peoples , discovered that by spearing directly at the image of a fish in water , that the spear would miss. They understood the property of "refraction " or the bending of light in water , before anyone actually named the scientific property . It's possible they found this by trial and errror , or by placing a spear in water and watching the results . And of course passing this information on to others .
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