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Experiment with Glass Tubes

Nature volume 22, page 291 (1880)Cite this article

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I HAVE just been repeating a very beautiful experiment of Prof. Quincke's which he showed me some weeks ago in his laboratory at Heidelberg. The experiment was, I believe, described in Poggendorff about two years ago, but I have not seen it noticed in English papers, and a few words about it may interest your readers.

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BOTTOMLEY, J. Experiment with Glass Tubes. Nature 22, 291 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022291b0

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