 | 1885 - 520 pages
...perceptible by the various definite bright lines their spectra exhibited, going on to say, "If this opinion should prove correct, and applicable to the other...require a laborious chemical analysis to detect." As an example of prevision this is perfect. Talbot, Brewster, and Herschel alike erred in attributing... | |
 | Robert Routledge - 1893 - 732 pages
...correct and applicable to the other definite rays, a glance at the prismatic spectrum of flame may show it to contain substances which it would otherwise...require a laborious chemical analysis to detect." Here we have the first hint of that spectrum analysis which has provided the chemist with a method... | |
 | Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer - 1907 - 1466 pages
..." if this opinion" — •i* to the cause of the production of the lines — " should prove Direct and applicable to the other definite rays, a glance...require a laborious chemical analysis to detect." In 1834 Talbot again writes: — ''Lithia and strontia are two bodies characterised by the fine red... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Chemistry - 1912 - 742 pages
...different metals and were characteristic of them, ' ' a glance at the prismatic spectrum of a flame may show it to contain substances which it would otherwise...require a laborious chemical analysis to detect." Later 2 (1834) he decided that the minutest portions of lithium and strontium could be distinguished... | |
 | Peter Whitfield - 1999 - 286 pages
...pioneer of photography, Fox Talbot, wrote in 1826 'a glance at the prismatic spectrum of a flame may show it to contain substances which it would otherwise...require a laborious chemical analysis to detect'. But its potential for analysing starlight was first realized during the years 1859-1862 by Gustav Kirchhoff... | |
 | Stuart Clark, Stuart G. Clark - 2007 - 236 pages
...pattern of colored lines when burned. They wrote, "A glance at the prismatic spectrum of a flame may show it to contain substances which it would otherwise...require a laborious chemical analysis to detect." As knowledge of such "flame tests" spread, scientists speculated that perhaps the dark Fraunhofer lines... | |
 | 1863 - 1212 pages
...correct, and applicable to the other definite rays, a glance at the prismatic spectrum of a flame may show it to contain substances which it would otherwise...require a laborious chemical analysis to detect." In a subsequent communication*, the same physicist, after a striking description of the spectra of... | |
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If this opinion should be correct, and applicable to the other definite rays, a glance at the prismatic spectrum of a flame may show it to contain substances which it would otherwise require a laborious chemical analysis to detect. 
