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OUR experiments on the electric discharge, which have been already published in the Phil. Trans. and the Proceedings of the Royal Society, enable us to state with some degree of probability the height of the aurora borealis when its display is of maximum brilliancy, and also the height at which this phenomenon could not occur on account of the great tenuity of the atmosphere.
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SCOTT, R. The Aurora Borealis 1 . Nature 22, 33–34 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022033a0
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