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DURING the discussion which followed the reading of the paper on “Colour Photometry” by Captain Abney and General Festing at the Royal Society on January 28, some interesting remarks were made by Lord Rayleigh as to the colour exhibited by heated iron when raised to such a temperature as only to be just visible in a dark room.
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NOBLE, A. First Visible Colour of Incandescent Iron. Nature 45, 484–485 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/045484c0
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