The scientists used a spectroscope to study the light emitted by the newly discovered star. From LearnThat.org.
Here the refracting prism -- or the combination of prisms known as the "spectroscope" -- comes to its aid, teaching it to measure as well as to perceive. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
At the other end of the spectroscope is the photographic plate. From Wordnik.com. [History of Astronomy] Reference
The essential parts of a spectroscope are the slit -- an opening perhaps. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
The spectroscope is the improved instrument by which the diffracting prism is best employed in producing the spectrum. From Wordnik.com. [Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World] Reference
One of the most difficult and delicate problems solved by the spectroscope is the approach or departure of a light-giving body in the line of sight. From Wordnik.com. [Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work] Reference
And this the spectroscope has clearly demonstrated. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
The instrument by which the observations are made is the spectroscope. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference
Darwin's achievement in biology and Bunsen's and Kirchhoff's with the spectroscope?. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference
STOKES and HUGGINS, moreover, have been taking views of people through the spectroscope. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870] Reference
Tulse Hill, where he has carried out valuable prismatic researches with the spectroscope. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
Procure a small direct vision pocket spectroscope, having adjustable slit and sliding focus. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891] Reference
The spectroscope story is a particularly good example of the way reprisals of good work out. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
But we find suggestions from the spectrum and the spectroscope which may be worth our heeding. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference
Carina nebula, and of several other irregular nebulae, have been measured with the spectroscope. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
The application of the spectroscope has advanced our knowledge of the subject by leaps and bounds. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
When we apply the spectroscope to celestial objects we find apparently an endless variety of spectra. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
A spectroscope I believe, is an instrument which takes a ray of light and proceeds to spread it abroad. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
A spectroscope, I believe, is an instrument which takes a ray of light and proceeds to spread it abroad. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
George reminded the Professor that he had not yet explained to them what the spectroscope was, and its uses. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen] Reference
Then was devised the spectroscope, and with it men audaciously questioned nature in her most secluded recesses. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881] Reference
Mr. G.F. WILLIAMS, for determining the sensitiveness of dry plates by the use of a small direct vision pocket spectroscope. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891] Reference
Each of the elements has a characteristic spectrum, and the presence of the metals can easily be detected by the spectroscope. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
Observatory has also been employed in various experiments with a slit spectroscope, and is again being used as described below. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887] Reference
How many prisms are required in a spectroscope to detect mineral elements in presence of all the ash ingredients of organic bodies?. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
In the future a higher value might, indeed, be placed upon this indirect use of the spectroscope than upon its chemical revelations. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
Through a stop-cock in the wall, Garth had drawn in a tube of gas from the atmosphere outside, and was analyzing it with a spectroscope. From Wordnik.com. [Out Around Rigel] Reference
Another discovery was made with the spectroscope; thus, if a boat moves up a river, it will meet more waves than will strike it if going down stream. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881] Reference
Dear Sir: Your mineral gives, in the spectroscope, three elegant red bands and one blue band; and certainly contains a new metal hitherto unknown to chemistry. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
Its content was more mysterious, more inaccessible than that of the remotest star which yields the secret of its substance to the spectroscope of the astronomer. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
Newton connected the most distant points of the universe by the one principle of gravitation: the spectroscope unites them by identity of structure and composition. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
It exhibits lines perpendicular to the refracting edge of the prism, such as are produced in the field of an ordinary spectroscope by particles of dust upon the slit. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887] Reference
It was soon discovered that a group of men in Douglas Camp would welcome the spectroscope, which was at once sent them, and the corresponding message written to Berlin. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
Whichever of our modern discoveries we may consider to be the most startling and important, there can I think be no doubt that the most beautiful is that of the spectroscope. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883] Reference
After his return from his visit to Ruhleben Camp he mentioned in a lecture that some of the science students interned there were very anxious to obtain the use of a spectroscope. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
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