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The 3 pages that link to Abbe number, each with the reason it gives.

• PrismRelated: It quantifies how much a prism material separates colors.

• Dispersion (optics)Related: It summarizes the strength of a lens material’s dispersion for optical design.

• Achromatic lensRelated: It quantifies the glass-dispersion differences used when selecting a correcting pair.