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Luminosity by Attrition

Nature volume 106, page 409 (1920)Cite this article

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WITH reference to Sir Ray Lankester's suggestion in NATURE of November 4 that chemists should endeavour to ascertain the cause of the “empyreumatic” odour which accompanies the flashes of light produced by rubbing two quartz pebbles together, may I suggest also that the inquiry might be extended to include other substances which possess this property of tribo-luminescence?

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