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Active Nitrogen

Nature volume 139, page 115 (1937)Cite this article

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IN their recent paper on the afterglow in actfve nitrogen, Cario and Stille1 have doubted the reality of the production in the nitrogen afterglow of the N2 + first-negative bands and those bands of the N2 first-positive system which originate on vibrational levels higher than = 14. It is suggested that my results were due to an accidental superposition of light from the exciting discharge on that of the afterglow.

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  1. Crio and Stille, Z. Phys., 102, 317 (1936).

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    JOSEPH KAPLAN

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KAPLAN, J. Active Nitrogen. Nature 139, 115 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139115a0

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