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" The colours thus communicated by the different bases to flame afford, in many cases, a ready and neat way of detecting extremely minute quantities of them... "
The Photographic News - Page 43
edited by - 1860
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Britain's Heritage of Science

Sir Arthur Schuster, Sir Arthur Everett Shipley - 1917 - 432 pages
...two significant observations: " The colours thus communicated by the different gases to flame afford, in many cases, a ready and neat way of detecting extremely minute quantities of them," and " no doubt these tints arise from the molecules of the colouring matter reduced to vapour, and...
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The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science

1861 - 1188 pages
...adds the distinct statement, that " the colours thus communicated by different bases to flame afford in many cases a ready and neat way of detecting extremely minute quantities of them." ROYAL SOCIETY. [Continued from p. 77-] November 22, 1860. — Major-General Sabine, RA, Treasurer and...
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The Analysis of Starlight: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Astronomical ...

J. B. Hearnshaw - 1990 - 554 pages
...(1792-1871). He wrote in 1823: The colours thus communicated by the different bases to flame afford, in many cases, a ready and neat way of detecting extremely minute quantities of them' (3). Herschel was therefore one of the first to suggest that flame colours could be used for chemical...
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Modern Theories of the Universe: From Herschel to Hubble

Michael J. Crowe - 1994 - 468 pages
...various metallic salts, stated: "The colours thus communicated by the different bases to flames afford, in many cases, a ready and neat way of detecting extremely minute quantities of them. . . ." By 1828 Josef Fraunhofer had published papers in which he ( 1 ) described over 500 dark lines...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 14; Volume 77

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1871 - 828 pages
...events, till 1827, when he wrote, " The colors thus contributed by different objects to flame afford in many cases a ready and neat way of detecting extremely minute quantities of them." Here we find spectrum analysis almost stated in terms, and yet, although Herschel, Brewster, and Fox...
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The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science

1863 - 1212 pages
...into the wick of a spiritlamp The colours thus communicated by the different bases to flame afford in many cases a ready and neat way of detecting extremely minute quantities of them The pure earths, when violently heated, as has recently been practised by Lieat. Drummond, by directing...
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