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IT is well known that the solar spectrum, even when observed from a mountain-top, so that there are fewer than four miles of “homogeneous atmosphere” overhead, does not extend so far as 2900, however long an exposure is given. It has further been long suspected that absorption by ozone is the cause, as originally suggested by Hartley. Perhaps it may be claimed that the recent work of Prof. A. Fowler and myself (Proc. Roy. Soc., A, vol. xciii., p. 577, 1917) leaves little or no room for doubt that this is the true explanation.
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STRUTT, R. Transparency of the Atmosphere for Ultra-violet Radiation. Nature 100, 144 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100144c0
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