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THE simple and forcible language employed by Prof. Stokes in the extract I gave in my last paper, should have made it quite clear that in nine cases out of ten, when bodies reflect light to us, they have really absorbed a part of it in the process, and that to this absorption of light bodies by their colours are chiefly to be ascribed.
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LOCKYER, J. PHYSICAL SCIENCE FOR ARTISTS 1 . Nature 18, 154–157 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018154a0
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