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FOR some time past we have been engaged in developing a compact laboratory method of measuring the velocity of light by utilising the Kerr electro-optic effect in nitrobenzene for obtaining very rapid intermittence in a light beam. The restoration of light by nitrobenzene (put between crossed Nicols) under electric stimulus is comparatively large and is almost instantaneous the lag being of the order of 10–10 sec.
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MITRA, S., BANERJI, D. Beats by High-Frequency Interruption of Light. Nature 121, 573 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121573a0
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