Ashes for Red Sunsets.
A cop.KEsrosDKNX of the Scientillc American haa been figuring on the red Bunaet question : He say 3 :—": — " To estimate the possible quantity of ashes required to give the red tint observed in the sky, let us assume that an inch of ashes are spread through ten cubic yards of air. This gives a dilution of 1 "w.OOO times. Astronoraera tells us the cause of the red light reaches sixty miles high in the air. At the rate of diffusion of the ashes that is assumed, this would require a mass of forty-two miles of cube, or a pile of ashes one mile high, fortytwo miles wide and 1,700 miles long,
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1964, 7 February 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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114Ashes for Red Sunsets. Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1964, 7 February 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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