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THE theory of radiation at present accepted is based on Maxwell's result that the pressure of any component frequency is one-third of its energy density, which appears to result from an assumption analogous to Boyle's law, according to which the excess pressure due to vibration, in the case of a gas, would be one-third of the energy density of the vibration.
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CALLENDAR, H. The Pressure of Radiation. Nature 92, 450–451 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/092450b0
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