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IN his recent presidential address to the Iron and Steel Institute, Prof. Sir W. Roberts-Austen stated (NATURE, NO. 1541, p. 43): βTo Gore, and to Barrett, we owe the investigation of the nature of a fact which had long been well known to smiths, that iron on cooling from a bright red heat suddenly emits a glow.β
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BARRETT, W. Historical Note on Recalescence. Nature 60, 173 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060173b0
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