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I WISH to direct attention to a very remarkable property possessed by one of the systems of interference bands which make their appearance when white light is reflected from a plane replica-film grating, backed by a parallel silvered surface separated by a film of air. The appearance of the fringes in question is shown in the accompanying photograph, when the grating has 14,508 lines to the inch and the air-space is 0.0740 cm.
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ROW, C. A Fixed System of Grating Interference Bands. Nature 99, 63–64 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099063c0
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