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WHILE I was engaged in flashlight colour photography, using large charges of magnesium and the ordinary touch-paper method of ignition, the fuse on one occasion apparently failed to act, but, just as I was about to replace it, the flash took place. My head was less than a foot above the explosion point, and the flame must have reached my face, as my eyebrows and hair were singed, and my spectacles were completely coated with a dense, firmly adherent film of magnesium oxide.
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MACKENZIE, K. A Peculiar Visual Experience. Nature 130, 888–889 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130888b0
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