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Definition of Chromospheres
1. chromosphere [n] - See also: chromosphere
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Literary usage of Chromospheres
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1. The Causes and Course of Organic Evolution: A Study of Bioenergics by John Muirhead MacFarlane (1918)
"... chromospheres, arranged along and embedded in the chromosome substance.
These undergo division, some time before division lengthwise of each chromosome ..."
2. Popular Science Monthly (1904)
"The electric arc and spark appear to reproduce the temperatures of many stellar
chromospheres and reversing layers. The electric furnace of Moissan seems to ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1869)
"... so to speak, to measure the varying pressures in the solar and stellar
chromospheres; for every star has, has had, or will have a chromosphere, ..."
4. Spectrum Analysis: Six Lectures, Delivered in 1868, Before the Society of by Henry Enfield Roscoe (1873)
"From these observations you sec that the stars possess chromospheres of ignited
hydrogen, and you will not fail to draw the inference, already pointed out ..."
5. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1872)
"... meteors, lightning, the aurora borealis, but especially the sun with its
extraordinary phenomena of gas streams, prominences, spots, chromospheres, etc. ..."
6. The Book Buyer by Charles Scribner's Sons (1884)
"... incapable of duly comprehending the chromospheres and the l.ii-nl.i of the
new astronomy, look back with yearning to the older days when the sun was ..."
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