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Wemple's technique was used to calculate the wavelength of the material dispersion zero for mixtures. The SiO2-GeO2 calculations gave positive deviations from linearity, somewhat smaller than the limited experimental data available. The deviations were not symmetrical with composition, the dominant contribution to the skewness deriving from the reduced mass term.
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K. Nassau (1981) studied this question.
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