But now it was not so dark; and the sun was belted by a thin line of vivid, white light.
Then, slowly, a soft, white light began to glow in the room.
Colour resides in white light, appearing when any constituent of the white light is withdrawn.
A diamond, which burns in oxygen as a star of white light, glows and burns in consequence of the falling of the atoms of oxygen against it.
A rowboat must carry a white light in a lantern to show when in danger of being run down.
A vessel when at anchor must keep burning a white light, throwing an unbroken flare in every direction; this light should be hoisted above the deck the height of the vessel's breadth.
A steam vessel carries the same lights as a sailing vessel, with the addition of a white light at the foremast head, or on launches on top of the pilot house.
By means of this simple contrivance, white light may be analysed and proved to consist of coloured rays, and several of its properties be beautifully illustrated.
Another variety of fluor spar, also found in Siberia, is of a pale violet colour, and emits a white light merely by the heat of the hand; and when put into boiling water, it will give out a green light.
The modern view points to the mathematical existence of waves of all wave-lengths in white light, the Newtonian view to the physical existence.
The spectrum of white lightproduced by prismatic refraction has engaged many investigators.
Two searchlights shoot up into the sky, and stand slim sentinels of blue-white light, undecided in the mist.
Then I see in the mist a little ahead of me a white light rise up and die away.
It has been said that black substances reflect a small quantity of white light, which receives the complementary of the colour contiguous to the black.
Consequently, any primary mixed with a secondary composed of the other two primaries, forms the complement of rays necessary to constitute or make up white light, and vice versâ.
Black substances reflect a small quantity of white light, which receives the complementary of the colour contiguous to the black.
Newton discovered that if a ray of white light be allowed to fall upon a triangular prism or glass, it is dispersed or broken into a number of colored rays known as the spectrum.
By passing this spectrum through another prism, white light is produced.
If the uranium glass be brought near the violet end of the spectrum of sunlight, it immediately glows, because it has the power of changing the invisible chemical rays into ordinary, white light rays.
The rays leave the second prism parallel and produce the effect of white light.
White light is a combination of light of many colors, but the speed of transmission is the same for all colors.
There are several ways in which light, which has thus been separated into its fundamental colors, can be re-composed so as to give us white light again.
The intensity of white light given by a half-watt incandescent electric lamp of 200 candle power, placed at a distance of a metre, is taken as the unit.
For where they meet and mix, they will compose a white Light, as when a Lens is used.
Nor did the Refractions cause any other sensible Colour than violet to emerge out of this Light, as they would have done out of white Light, and by consequence out of this violet Light had it been sensibly compounded with white Light.
Place a triangular glass prism near the slit to intercept the beam of white light, and suddenly there appears on the opposite wall a band of brilliant colors.
White light dispersed into a colored band by one prism, may have the process reversed by a second prism, so that the eye sees again only white light.
It was immediately succeeded by a white light on our port side, which, however, continued to shine steadily.
The watchful second officer, Eyring, announces a white light to starboard which is approaching rapidly.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "white light" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
