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paper more quickly than violet light itself. He announced the discovery in a very brief letter to the Annalen der Physik and later called them "(de-)oxidizing rays" to emphasize chemical reactivity and to distinguish them from "heat rays", discovered the previous year at the other end of the visible spectrum. The simpler term "chemical rays" was adopted soon afterwards, and remained popular throughout the 19th century, although

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