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III. LET me begin my third paper by an attempt to graphically illustrate the conclusions to which I drew attention at the end of my second. These conclusions were as follows:—(i) Very complex molecules when in vibration give us light that we call white, which light, when split up by a prism, gives us a spectrum consisting of Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet, going from one end to the other. We will represent this by open letters (the initials of the various colours) to show that this is a case of the giving out of light.
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LOCKYER, J. PHYSICAL SCIENCE FOR ARTISTS 1 . Nature 18, 87–89 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018087a0
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