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HAUTEFEUILLE AND CHAPPUIS state (Comptes rendus) that when a high tension spark is passed through a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen, ozone and “pernitric acid” are produced, but the latter compound is readily decomposed with production of a less oxygenated body and oxygen. When the electric discharge is passed through air in presence of water vapour very noticeable quantities of nitric acid are formed. The same observers have examined the absorption-spectrum of ozone and have recognised certain bands which they state are also found in the solar spectrum. They think that ithe blue colour of the sky may probably be partly due to the presence of ozone.
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Chemical Notes . Nature 23, 396–397 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023396b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/023396b0