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Variation of Refractive Indices

Nature volume 104, page 334 (1919)Cite this article

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MR. TWYMAN (NATURE, November 20, p. 315) will find in Trans. Chemical Society (1906, vol. lxxxix., p. 417) an account of some observations by Miss Florence Isaac and myself which indicate that the refractive index of a solution of sodium nitrate at the surface of contact with glass is slightly greater than that of the same solution in contact with calcite.

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