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IN the Philosophical Magazine for April 1898, I pointed out that the resolution into triplets, &c, which the spectral lines suffer in a strong magnetic field, did not appear to follow any obvious general law, but appeared to be some complex function of the wavelength. To this was added the following remark:—“It is possible, however, that the lines of any one substance may be thrown into groups for each of which δλ varies as λ2, and each of these groups might be produced by the motion of a single ion. The number of such groups in a given spectrum would then determine the number of different kinds of ions in the atom or molecule.
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PRESTON, T. General Law of the Phenomena of Magnetic Perturbations of Spectral Lines. Nature 59, 248 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/059248a0
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