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1817–8. Herschel, in Encycl. Metrop. (1845), IV. 524. The unpolarized portion [of light] will continue to be half transmitted.
1856. Scoffern, in Orr’s Circ. Sci., Pract. Chem., 96. Whether the … rays be polarized or unpolarized.
1871. B. Stewart, Heat (ed. 2), § 179. If the vibrations have no reference to any particular plane, then the wave is unpolarized.
