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... Balmer , proposed a formula that he thought expressed such a regularity for the wavelengths of a series of lines in the emission spectrum of hydrogen . On the basis of measurements that Ångström had made of four lines in that spectrum , ...
... Balmer , proposed a formula that he thought expressed such a regularity for the wavelengths of a series of lines in the emission spectrum of hydrogen . On the basis of measurements that Ångström had made of four lines in that spectrum , ...
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... Balmer's formula had been constructed only after all the 35 lines now recorded in the series had been carefully measured . In this fictitious case , then , exactly the same experimental findings would be available that have in fact been ...
... Balmer's formula had been constructed only after all the 35 lines now recorded in the series had been carefully measured . In this fictitious case , then , exactly the same experimental findings would be available that have in fact been ...
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... Balmer's formula . Balmer had anticipated the possibility that the hydrogen spec- trum might contain further series of lines , and that the wavelengths of all the lines might conform to a generalization of his formula ; namely , λ = b ...
... Balmer's formula . Balmer had anticipated the possibility that the hydrogen spec- trum might contain further series of lines , and that the wavelengths of all the lines might conform to a generalization of his formula ; namely , λ = b ...
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