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Raman Effect in Rock-Salt

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Born and Bradburn1 have deduced the nature of the Raman spectrum of rock-salt to be expected on the basis of the Born lattice dynamics. They claim to have explained satisfactorily the observed features of the rock-salt spectrum reported by Fermi and Rasetti2. I believe that their theoretical results cannot be reconciled with the observed facts3.

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  1. Born, M., and Bradburn, M., Nature, 156, 567 (1945).

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  2. Fermi, E., and Rasetti, F., Z. Phys., 71, 689 (1931).

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  3. Krishnan, R. S., Nature, 156, 267 (1945).

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KRISHNAN, R. Raman Effect in Rock-Salt. Nature 157, 623 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157623a0

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