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IN connection with this subject, which was referred to in Mr. Terrill's letter in NATURE for May 17, perhaps the following homely way of illustrating the fact that the combination of two complementary colours produces white may interest your readers. If a tumbler of beer be held in front of the green glass shade of an ordinary reading lamp, it will be found on looking through the beer at the shade that the tumbler appears to be filled with an almost colourless liquid.
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ALLEN, J. Complementary Colours. Nature 16, 84 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016084b0
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