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Clarke and McTurk1 have recently claimed that Rice's blue material can be prepared by passing ammonia through an electrical discharge tube and partially freezing out the decomposition products on a cold finger, placed about 2 cm. from the nearest electrode.
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Clarke, J. W., and McTurk, G., Nature, 184, 2014 (1959).
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Kiess, C. C., Karrer, S., and Kiess, H. K. (to be published in “The Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific”.)
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RICE, F., COSGRAVE, D. Some Experiments on Rice's Blue Material : Colours on Jupiter. Nature 188, 1023 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/1881023a0
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