What we see as the white rays of sunlight can really be split into a number of colours, which reach us in waves of different lengths. The blue waves in particular are caught and reflected on the -myriad particles of dust which art always present in our atmosphere. We cannot, however, see the air all round us as blue except where distant hills (or any other far-off mass) act as a kind of dark screeYi, setting off the blue-tinted atmosphere.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20280, 14 April 1934, Page 17 (Supplement)
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