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215.

If we place a black band, or stripe, on white paper,26 the violet border will spread till it meets the yellow-red edge. In this case the intermediate black is effaced (as the intermediate white was in the last experiment), and in its stead a splendid pure red will appear.27 The series of colours will now be as follows:—

Blue.

Blue-red.

Red.

Yellow-red.

Yellow.

216.

The yellow and blue, in the first case (214), can by degrees meet so fully, that the two colours blend entirely in green, and the order will then be,

Yellow-red.

Green.

Blue-red.

In the second case (215), under similar circumstances, we see only

Blue.

Red.

Yellow.

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