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Alpine Haze

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WITH the caution of a true man of science, Prof. Tyndall has given this name to a phenomenon observed by him in the Alps. Does not W. Clement Ley beg the question by calling it “dust-haze”? I should translate his nebula arida by “dry haze.”

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D'ABBADIE, A. Alpine Haze. Nature 39, 247–248 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039247d0

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