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AFTERGLOW

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 362 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AFTERGLOW , a broad high See also:

arch of. whitish or rosy See also:light appearing occasionally in the See also:sky above the highest clouds in the See also:hour of deepening See also:twilight, or reflected from the high See also:snow-See also:fields in See also:mountain regions See also:long after sunset: The phenomenon is due to very See also:fine particles of dust suspended in the high regions of the See also:atmosphere that produce a scattering effect upon the component parts of See also:white light. After the eruption of See also:Krakatoa in 1883, a remarkable See also:series of red sunsets appeared all over the See also:world. These were due to an enormous amount of exceedingly fine dust blown to a See also:great height by that terrific See also:explosion, and then universally diffused by the high atmospheric currents.

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