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British physicist (born in Ireland) remembered for his experiments on the transparency of gases and the absorption of radiant heat by gases and the transmission of sound through the atmosphere; he was the first person to explain why the daylight sky is blue (1820-1893)
By Princeton University
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Lafayette's mixture
- Preparation of copaiba, cubebs, spirit nitrous ether, and liquor potassae. See under Lafayette.