| Denison Olmsted - 1850 - 624 pages
...the same color ever belongs the same degree of refrangibility." By absorbing the excess of any color at any point of the spectrum above what is necessary...refractions, and of being decomposable only by absorption. FIXED LINES IN THE SPECTRUM. 775. The solar spectrum, in its greatest possible state of purity and... | |
| Robert Hunt - 1854 - 466 pages
...space there is more yellow than is necessary to make white Light with the red and blue ; and in that part of the blue space which appears violet there...refractions, and of being decomposable only by absorption. (51.) Slight consideration will show that these views suppose these coloured bands to be composed of... | |
| Denison Olmsted - 1859 - 620 pages
...the same color ever belongs the same degree of refrangibility." By absorbing the excess of any color at any point of the spectrum above what is necessary...appear at that point, and this white light will possess tfte remarkable property uf remaining white after any number •of refractions, and of being decomposable... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...considered as consisting of the predominating colour at that point mixed with white light. Consequently, by absorbing the excess of any colour at any point...spectrum above what is necessary to form white light, such white light will appear at that point as never mortal eye looked upon before this experiment,... | |
| Barbara T. Gates - 2002 - 712 pages
...considered as consisting of the predominating colour at that point mixed with white light. Consequently, by absorbing the excess of any colour at any point...spectrum above what is necessary to form white light, such white light will appear at that point as never mortal eye looked upon before this experiment,... | |
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