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Emission Bands in the Mercury Spectrum under Low Excitation

Nature volume 127, page 662 (1931)Cite this article

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SOME years ago I found a long series of diffuse bands from λ2943 to λ2614 in the absorption spectrum of a long column of mercury vapour.1 The same series was found independently and about the same time by Mohler and Moore.

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  1. Proc. Roy. Soc., A, vol. 116, p. 705; 1927.

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RAYLEIGH Emission Bands in the Mercury Spectrum under Low Excitation. Nature 127, 662 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127662a0

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