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You are both correct: Book 1, Chapter 15 says "Save that an unknown element giving a group of four lines in the blue of the spectrum is concerned, we are still entirely ignorant of the nature of this substance." and Book 2, Chapter 10 says "Spectrum analysis of the black powder points unmistakably to
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the presence of an unknown element with a brilliant group of three lines in the green, and it is possible that it combines with argon to form a compound which acts at once with deadly effect upon some constituent in the blood."
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The Black Smoke itself is not mentioned at any point, but you do see a
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Nope. The article's description is correct. An unknown element with a group of three lines in the green, as stated in the third paragraph of the epilogue. --
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I was curious if there's a strong consenus on changing the title from "Black smoke" to "Black Smoke"? I renamed the heat rays article to
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I'm sure that Wells specified that the unknown element showed four blue lines in a spectrum analysis, not three green lines.
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