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Photographic Action on Ebonite

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AT the back of one of the cases of lecture apparatus facing a north window in this laboratory, there happens to have been standing for six months or more an ebonite plate with a framed glass plate in front of it, the glass having a star-pattern done in little spots of tinfoil all over it. The thickness of the frame, say an eighth of an inch, separated the two plates from each other.

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ROBINSON, E. Photographic Action on Ebonite. Nature 32, 626–627 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032626f0

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