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  • _ -- Spectroscope shows blood contains methæmoglobin; the drug discharges the colour of indigo in acid solution with SO_ {2}.

    Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

  • Construction; Colourists 'Use of the Spectroscope.

    The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student Franklin Beech

  • Julian Meredith Baker read an essay on the Spectroscope.

    History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912 Kemp Plummer 1912

  • The Spectroscope sorts out the above seven colours from sunlight (which is compounded of these seven colours).

    The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897

  • The Spectroscope sorts out the above seven colours from sunlight (which is compounded of these seven colours).

    The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897

  • In this Spectroscope either one or two half prisms can be used at pleasure, according to the dispersion required, and there is facility for increasing the train to three or four half-prisms, though the dispersion with two only is nearly double of that given by the large ten-prism Spectroscope.

    Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896

  • All observations with the Spectroscope have been completely reduced; the measures of lines in the spectra of elements being converted into corresponding wave-lengths, and the observations of displacement of lines in the spectra of stars being reduced so as to exhibit the concluded motion in miles per second, after applying a correction for the earth's motion.

    Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896

  • The adjustment of the Spectroscope has occupied a great deal of attention.

    Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896

  • The Spectroscope is specifically adapted to sweeping round the Sun's limb, with a view to mapping out the prominences, and is also available for work on Stars and Nebulae, the dispersive power being very readily varied.

    Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896

  • A prominence of unusual brilliancy was seen with the Spectroscope about the same time and in the same position with reference to the Sun's limb.

    Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896

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