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Atmosphere Light Columns from Artifical Lights

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MR. HUGH NICOL'S explanation (NATURE, May 3, p. 671) of atmospheric light columns from artificial lights is not merely an extension of mine but an alternative. My explanation, the orthodox one, is that the columns are due to the reflection of light from laminar crystals; his suggestion is that the columns are due to diffraction by laminar or acicular particles.

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WHIPPLE, F. Atmosphere Light Columns from Artifical Lights. Nature 125, 743 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125743b0

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