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"N" RAYS
recently observed that the Auer burner can be advantageously replaced by the Nernst lamp, without a glass, this lamp giving more intense "N" rays. With a 200-watt lamp, the phenomena are marked enough to be, in my belief, easily visible to any one at the first trial.
On the Storing-up of "N" rays by Certain Bodies (November 9, 1903).
In the course of my researches on "N" rays, I had occasion to note a very remarkable fact. The "N" rays were produced by an Auer burner enclosed in a lantern, and after passing through one of the sides of the lantern, formed by a sheet of aluminium, were concentrated by a quartz lens upon phosphorescent calcium sulphide.[1] The Auer burner having
- ↑ This sulphide was tightly packed into a slit cut into a sheet of cardboard 0.8 mm. thick; the width of the slit was 0.5 nd its length 15 mm. After exposure to sunlight, a small, luminous source is thus obtained, which is very sensitive to "N" rays.
