 | 1864 - 332 pages
...waves, the latter are absorbed. Briefly denned, then, transparency in liquids as well as in gases is synonymous with discord, while opacity is synonymous...they impinge. All ordinary transparent and colourless substance! owe their transparency to the discord which exists between the oscillating periods of their... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1864 - 636 pages
...waves the latter are absorbed. Briefly defined, their transparency in liquids, as well as in gases, is synonymous with discord, while opacity is synonymous...those of the waves of the whole visible spectrum. The general discord of the vibrating periods of the molecules of compound bodies with the light-giving... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1864 - 636 pages
...waves the latter are absorbed. Briefly defined, their transparency in liquids, as well as in gases, is synonymous with discord, while opacity is synonymous...those of the waves of the whole visible spectrum. The general discord of the vibrating periods of the molecules of compound bodies with the light-giving... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1864 - 636 pages
...absorbed. Briefly denned, their transparency in liquids, as well as in gases, is synonymous with diteord, while opacity is synonymous with accord between the...those of the waves of the whole visible spectrum. The general discord of the vibrating periods of the molecules of compound bodies with the light-giving... | |
 | 1864 - 654 pages
...transparent and colourless substances )we their transparency to the discord which exists between he oscillating periods of their molecules and those of the waves of the whole visible spectrum. The general disord of the vibrating periods of the molecules of compound bodies with the light-giving waves... | |
 | 1865 - 388 pages
...waves, the latter are absorbed. Briefly defined, then, transparency in liquids as well as in gases, is synonymous with discord, while opacity is synonymous...on which they impinge. All ordinary transparent and colorless substances owe their transparency to the discard which exists between the oscillating periods... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1866 - 730 pages
...latter are absorbed. Briefly defined, then, transparency in liquids as well as in gases is S3rnonynious with discord, while opacity is synonymous with accord...those of the waves of the whole visible spectrum. The general discord of the vibrating periods of the molecules of compound. Lodies with the light-giving... | |
 | Joseph Bayma - 1866 - 300 pages
...others are necessarily reflected or absorbed at the surface of incidence*. * Professor Tyndall says: "All ordinary transparent and colourless substances...those of the waves of the whole visible spectrum. The general discord of the vibrating periods of the molecules of compound bodies with the lightgiving waves... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1868 - 560 pages
...sensible absorption, coincidence of period is necessary. Briefly defined, therefore, transparency is synonymous with discord, while opacity is synonymous...of the molecules of the body on which they impinge. The opacity, then, of our solution of iodine to light shows that its atoms are competent to vibrate... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1869 - 454 pages
...of ether and those of the body on which they impinge. SECT. n. CAUSE OF TRANSPARENCY AND OPACITY. 37 All ordinary transparent and colourless substances...those of the waves of the whole visible spectrum. The general discord of the vibrating periods of the molecules of compound bodies with the light-giving... | |
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Briefly defined, then, transparency in liquids as well as in gases is synonymous with discord, while opacity is synonymous with accord between the periods of the waves of ether and those of the molecules of the body on which they impinge. 
