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The Colours of the Atmosphere considered with reference to a paper “On the Colour of Steam under certain circumstances,” read at the last meeting of the Royal Society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2015

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The object of this paper was to develope an application of the fact communicated by the author on the 21st January. It was then remarked, that the discovery that steam in a certain stage of condensation is deeply red-coloured for transmitted light, seemed to offer a probable solution of a difficulty which has never yet been fairly met, namely, the red colour of clouds at sunset, and the redness of light transmitted through certain kinds of fogs.

A-pretty full history of theories proposed to account for the colours of the atmosphere was first given; it was obtained in almost every case from an examination of the original authorities.

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Proceedings 1838–39
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 1 , 1845 , pp. 243 - 246
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1844

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page 245 note * Some plausible reasons are assigned why these bands should not have appeared in the experiment as it was made, when steam in every stage of condensation must necessarily have been present: nor does it seem easy to devise a form of experiment free from this objection. A very important observation would be to examine the spectrum produced by a distant artificial light seen through a red fog.