A french experiment in ship-building

• Book ID: 103089923
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1882
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 58 KB
• Volume: 113
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(82)90274-5

✦ Synopsis

Diffusion of Electric

Light.--M. Clenmndot was induced, bv *observing the diffusion of the solar light by clouds, to cxperimout with mineral wool, or spun slag, in connectio~a with the electric arC', and found that it seemed to absorb the light like a sponge, s~) as to make from 75 to 80 per cent. available for illumination whih~ ~he ordinary processes utilize only from 45 to 50 per cent. at the most.--La ~rature.

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