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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: process. But probable as this seems, it is by no means a
proven conclusion.
Neither is the composition of the Black Smoke known,
which the Martians used with such deadly effect, and the
generator of the Heat-Rays remains a puzzle. The terrible
disasters at the Ealing and South Kensington laboratories
have disinclined analysts for further investigations upon
the latter. Spectrum analysis of the black powder points
unmistakably to the presence of an unknown element with
a brilliant group of three lines in the green, and it is pos-
sible that it combines with argon to form a compound
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