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PROF. RAMSAY gives the wave-length of the principal line in his new gas as 5566. It will no doubt also occur to others that this is very near the wave-length of the aurora line, which Yogel has measured as 5569. It should be mentioned in connection with this line that Profs. Liveing and Dewar have observed one very near it at 557 in sparks taken in liquid oxygen. The second green line given by Prof. Ramsay as 5557, seems also to have been seen by these observers (Phil. Mag., xxxviii. p. 237, 1894).
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SCHUSTER, A. The Origin of the Aurora Spectrum. Nature 58, 151 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058151a0
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