Both Uses of
spectrum
in
The War of the Worlds
- Save that an unknown element giving a group of four lines in the blue of the spectrum is concerned, we are still entirely ignorant of the nature of this substance.†
Chpt 1.15 *
- Spectrum analysis of the black powder points unmistakably to the presence of an unknown element with a brilliant group of three lines in the green, and it is possible that it combines with argon to form a compound which acts at once with deadly effect upon some constituent in the blood.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(spectrum) a range of things between two boundaries -- such as light waves of a given colors, or opinions about whether an idea is good or not