THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE LIGHT OF THE WEST INDIAN ELATERID BEETLE, PYROPHORUS

The maximum brightness of one of the prothoracic light organs of the West Indian elaterid beetles, Pyrophorus (measured at Princeton, New Jersey) was found to be .045 lambert, or .045 lumen per sq. cm. at 20°C. This corresponds to .0002 candle for one organ, or .0004 candle for the pair of prothorac...

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Autores principales: Harvey, E. Newton, Stevens, Kenneth P.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 1928
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2323700/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19872458
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description The maximum brightness of one of the prothoracic light organs of the West Indian elaterid beetles, Pyrophorus (measured at Princeton, New Jersey) was found to be .045 lambert, or .045 lumen per sq. cm. at 20°C. This corresponds to .0002 candle for one organ, or .0004 candle for the pair of prothoracic organs.
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spelling pubmed-23237002008-04-23 THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE LIGHT OF THE WEST INDIAN ELATERID BEETLE, PYROPHORUS Harvey, E. Newton Stevens, Kenneth P. J Gen Physiol Article The maximum brightness of one of the prothoracic light organs of the West Indian elaterid beetles, Pyrophorus (measured at Princeton, New Jersey) was found to be .045 lambert, or .045 lumen per sq. cm. at 20°C. This corresponds to .0002 candle for one organ, or .0004 candle for the pair of prothoracic organs. The Rockefeller University Press 1928-11-20 /pmc/articles/PMC2323700/ /pubmed/19872458 Text en Copyright © Copyright, 1928, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research This article is distributed under the terms of an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike–No Mirror Sites license for the first six months after the publication date (see http://www.rupress.org/terms). After six months it is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 4.0 Unported license, as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
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title_full THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE LIGHT OF THE WEST INDIAN ELATERID BEETLE, PYROPHORUS
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title_full_unstemmed THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE LIGHT OF THE WEST INDIAN ELATERID BEETLE, PYROPHORUS
title_short THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE LIGHT OF THE WEST INDIAN ELATERID BEETLE, PYROPHORUS
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