e, andfrom which light will be reflected in an intensely colouredcondition. In this way water acts when making up acolour, and the gum and varnish in water and oil colours.The nearer the relation of the pigment and the medium asregards dispersing powers, the more homogenous will bethis mixture in… … The pigment, so to speak, splits the white light intotwo parts, the absorbed and the reflected; its colour is,therefore, always complementary to the absorbed part of thelight. What is the composition of each only the spectro-scope can tell. For such analytical research the spectro-scopes of Schmidt…
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