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Phosphorescence caused by Active Nitrogen

Nature volume 111, pages 599–600 (1923)Cite this article

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IN 1904, in the Astrophysical Journal, the present writer described the spectrum of the afterglow of active nitrogen, and showed that the vapours of mercury and other metals present in the tube participated in the afterglow. Some years later the present Lord Rayleigh showed that luminosity of the vapours of many substances is excited by active nitrogen.

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LEWIS, E. Phosphorescence caused by Active Nitrogen. Nature 111, 599–600 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111599a0

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