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THIS lecture is published by request, but the author fears that, dealing as it does with the colours of metals, such interest as it may have possessed when delivered will be greatly diminished in the absence of the experiments and diagrams by which it was illustrated.
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A Lecture delivered on September 3 by Prof. W. Chandler Roberts-Austen, F.R.S., to the Operative Classes in the Town Hall of Birmingham, in connection with the meeting of the British Association.
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The Colours of Metals and Alloys 1 . Nature 35, 106–111 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/035106a0
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