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The D-line Spectrum

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WILL Prof. Stokes give us the reason of his now holding that his first—to all appearance, extremely rational—conclusion, that, in consequence of “the powerful affinities of sodium, it could not exist in a free state in the flame of a spirit-lamp,” is “erroneous”?

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ROSS, W. The D-line Spectrum. Nature 13, 224 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/013224c0

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