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— Gabriel Lippmann"When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection."
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In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.
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