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IN a recent issue of NATURE (Sept. 21, 1929, p. 441) Messrs. Wood and Leathwood described some experimental work on the ageing or solarisation of ultra-violet, transparent glasses, from the results of which they arrived at two conclusions: (1) that complete degeneration by a mercury arc lamp results in a greater loss of ultra-violet transparency than does natural solarisation, and (2) that natural solarisation of U.V. glasses is complete after only a few days' exposure to the sun.
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ENGLISH, S. Loss of Ultra-Violet Transparency in Glasses. Nature 125, 85–86 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125085a0
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