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Fuel Economisers

Nature volume 102, page 324 (1918)Cite this article

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DR. AITKEN'S letter in NATURE of December 12 calls to my mind some unpublished experiments which I made at the National Physical Laboratory in connection with some work on radiation from surfaces, which entirely bear out his statement that the colour of a hot surface at relatively low temperature has very little influence on the amount of radiation leaving it. This is a conclusion which, a priori, one would not consider very probable, yet is actually found.

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