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It was simply so lowered in refrangibility as to escape the visual range.

From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by Tyndall, John

This confirmed his previous conclusion that the rays increase in refrangibility from red to violet.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various

He, by the interposition of a proper medium, so lowered the refrangibility of the ultraviolet rays of the spectrum as to render them visible.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John

Then came Newton's crowning experiments on the analysis and synthesis of white light, by which it was proved to be compounded of various kinds of light of different degrees of refrangibility.

From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by Tyndall, John

Sir John, grown more confident, adduced the example of the Newtonian reflector, in which the refrangibility was corrected by the second speculum, and the angle of incidence restored by the third.'

From Myths and Marvels of Astronomy by Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony)