Abstract
A MICROWAVE discharge in flowing nitrogen gas can produce the familiar, long-lived, Lewis-Rayleigh afterglow due to atom recombination and a short-lived, pink afterglow; the latter has a spectrum which is similar to that of the discharge in some respects but it is separated from the discharge by a dark space. Oldenberg1 has reviewed work on the pink afterglow and has given an explanation of some of its properties, but several problems remain.
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BROCKLEHURST, B. Role of Vibrational Relaxation in the Pink Afterglow of Nitrogen. Nature Physical Science 236, 12 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/physci236012a0
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