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THE remarkable transparency of alkali metal films reported by R. W. Wood1 is of considerable interest, on one hand in relation to the theory of electrons in metals and on the other in relation to spectroscopic technique, for these films are unique as filters2.
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R. W. Wood, Phys. Rev., 44, 353 (1933).
H. M. O'Bryan, Rev. Sci. Inst., 6, 328 (1935).
See, for example, A. H. Wilson, Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 151, 280 (1935).
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WATSON, W., HURST, D. Transparency of Sodium and Potassium Films in the Schumann Region. Nature 138, 124 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138124a0
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