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WITH regard to Drs. De La Rue and Müller's paper on the Aurora (NATURE, vol. xxii. p. 33) there is still a point I should like to see explained. Is it considered by physicists that in electric discharges similarity of colour is sufficient to indicate similarity of constitution, even when their spectra are quite unlike? The paper, together with the reply to Prof. Smyth, certainly seems to imply this; though I have not previously seen it stated to be the case.
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BACKHOUSE, T. The Aurora Borealis and its Colours. Nature 22, 145 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022145c0
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