The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 251
pth of colouration,the moleculararrange-ment of bodies, etc.~No substance is perfectly transparent nor perfectly opaque.Thus, it has been calculated that if our transparent atmospherehad a depth or thickness of 700 miles it would be impervious tothe suns intense Hght; on the other hand, gold, one… … parent substance, their translucency is visually increased, as inthe case of paper when saturated with turpentine, etc. Themolecular arrangement of a substance may determine its trans-parent or opaque condition. Thus, the elementary body carbon,in its crystallised form of the diamond, is…
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