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THE Glass Research Committee of the Institute of Chemistry has recently issued a note on the conditions for obtaining green fluorescence under kathode rays in glass suitable for X-ray tubes indicating that the presence of a small amount of manganese must be present. In view of the fact that there appears to be some misconception regarding the necessity of the green fluorescence it may be of interest to give a brief account of what is involved in obtaining as marked a fluorescence as that which has usually been noticed in working X-ray tubes hitherto.
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JACKSON, H. The “Green Fluorescence” of X-Ray Tubes. Nature 95, 479–480 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095479c0
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