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IN reference to the letter in NATURE of November 4, p. 310, by Sir E. Ray Lankester on the above phenomenon, it may be of interest to some to know that Thomas Wedgwood was the first to direct attention to the fact that light could be produced by the rubbing together of quartz or sugar. His paper on “Experiments and Observations on the Production of Light from Different Bodies by Heat and Attrition” may be found in Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc., 1792, part i.
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CARUS-WILSON, C. Luminosity by Attrition. Nature 106, 345 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106345d0
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