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... yellow , green , blue , indigo , and violet - of which the red is the least refrangible , and the violet the most . But , when he reunited these seven rays by means of a lens , the compound beam became pure white as before .
... yellow , green , blue , indigo , and violet - of which the red is the least refrangible , and the violet the most . But , when he reunited these seven rays by means of a lens , the compound beam became pure white as before .
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... while the red rays effect upon it : and in 1801 M. Ritter discovered that invisible rays beyond the violet extremity have the property of blackening argentine salts , that this property diminishes towards the less refrangible part ...
... while the red rays effect upon it : and in 1801 M. Ritter discovered that invisible rays beyond the violet extremity have the property of blackening argentine salts , that this property diminishes towards the less refrangible part ...
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This distribution does not depend on the refrangibility of the rays alone , but also on the nature of the rays ... tartrate of silver the darkening occupies not only all the space under the ? u 2 : il W PE most refrangible rays , SECT .
This distribution does not depend on the refrangibility of the rays alone , but also on the nature of the rays ... tartrate of silver the darkening occupies not only all the space under the ? u 2 : il W PE most refrangible rays , SECT .
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u 2 : il W PE most refrangible rays , but reaches much beyond the extreme red . On paper prepared with formobenzoate of silver the chemical spectrum is cut off at the orange rays , with phosphate of silver in the yellow , and with ...
u 2 : il W PE most refrangible rays , but reaches much beyond the extreme red . On paper prepared with formobenzoate of silver the chemical spectrum is cut off at the orange rays , with phosphate of silver in the yellow , and with ...
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Notwithstanding the great variety in the scale of action of the solar spectrum , the darkening or deoxydizing principle that prevails in the more refrangible part rarely surpasses or even attains the mean yellow ray which is the point ...
Notwithstanding the great variety in the scale of action of the solar spectrum , the darkening or deoxydizing principle that prevails in the more refrangible part rarely surpasses or even attains the mean yellow ray which is the point ...
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| Title | On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences |
| Author | Mary Somerville |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1858 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 12 Apr 2012 |
| Length | 523 pages |
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