Cotton-Mouton effect

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The Cotton-Mouton effect refers to the double refraction of light in a liquid in the presence of a constant transverse magnetic field. It is much stronger than the Voigt effect. The electric analog is the Kerr effect.

It was discovered in 1907 by Cotton and Mouton.