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THE old method of showing the compound nature of light by the composition of artificial colours on the lecture-table, is to arrange the various colours in the proper proportion on a disc and to revolve this disc rapidly; but a pure white cannot be produced by this method since there is necessarily a partial absorption of rays on every part of the disc.
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TERRILL, W. A New Lecture Experiment for Proving the Compound Nature of White Light. Nature 16, 42–43 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016042c0
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