 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1868 - 662 pages
...were confirmed on June 25. The remarkably close resemblance of the spectrum of the comet with that of the spectrum of carbon, necessarily suggests the identity...by which in both cases the light was emitted. The great fixity of carbon seems, indeed, to raise some difficulty in the way of accepting the apparently... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1868 - 654 pages
...were confirmed on June 25. The remarkably close resemblance of the spectrum of the comet with that of the spectrum of carbon, necessarily suggests the identity...by which in both cases the light was emitted. The great fixity of carbon seems, indeed, to raise some difficulty in the way of accepting the apparently... | |
 | 1868 - 1022 pages
...resemblance of the spectrum of the comet to that of the spectrum of carbon, necessarily suggests the ideutity of the substances by which in both cases the light was emitted. The great fixity of carbon seems, indeed, to raise some difficulty in the way of accepting the apparently... | |
 | Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1870 - 514 pages
...of nearly equal brightness for the same proportion of its length. On a subsequent evening, June 25, I repeated these comparisons, when the former observations...substances by which in both cases the light was emitted. It may be well to state that some phosphorescent and fluorescent bodies give discontinuous spectra,... | |
 | sir Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1869 - 396 pages
...length. On a subsequent evening, June 2"», I repeated these comparisons, when the former ohservations were fully confirmed in every particular. On this...substances by which in both cases the light was emitted. It may be well to state that some phosphorescent and fluorescent bodies give discontinuous spectra,... | |
 | Robert Main - 1869 - 212 pages
...times, and satisfied himself with the true identity of position of the lines, and he believes that " the close resemblance of the spectrum of the comet to...substances by which in both cases the light was emitted." Another comet, examined at an earlier period, namely, the beginning of I860, exhibited in the spectroscope... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1869 - 858 pages
...were not to be seen in the spectrum of tho comet. The very close resemblance of the spectrum of this comet to the spectrum of carbon necessarily suggests...substances by which, in both cases, the light was emitted, though indeed the great fixity of carbon seems to raise a difficulty in the way of accepting this conclusion.... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1869 - 700 pages
...their relative brightness. The remarkably close resemblance of the spectrum of the comet to that of the spectrum of carbon necessarily suggests the identity...substances by which in both cases the light was emitted. HEAT. — The intense heat of the voltaic arc has been applied by FP Le Roux in a most ingenious manner... | |
 | 1869 - 692 pages
...their relative brightness. The remarkably close resemblance of the spectrum of the comet to that of the spectrum of carbon necessarily suggests the identity...substances by which in both cases the light was emitted. HEAT. — The intense heat of the voltaic arc has been applied by ~FP Le Koux in a most ingenious manner... | |
 | 1869 - 826 pages
...of the spectrum of the comet to that of the spectram of carbon necessarily suggests the identity »f the substances by which in both cases the light was emitted. The great fixity of carbon seems, indeed, to raise some difficulty in the way of accepting the apparently... | |
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This band in both spectra remained of nearly equal brightness for the same proportion of its length. On a subsequent evening, June 25, I repeated these comparisons, when the former observations were fully confirmed in every particular. On this evening... 
