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A Metastable P Term in the Manganese Arc Spectrum

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THREE years ago Wentzel (Phys. Zeit., 24, 104, 1923) pointed out that a metastable state of the manganese atom was to be expected and as evidence of this directed attention to a fivefold D′ term. So far as the author is aware, P′ terms in this spectrum have never been identified although they also should be expected.

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SAWYER, R. A Metastable P Term in the Manganese Arc Spectrum. Nature 117, 155 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117155a0

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