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THE increasingly great interest now being shown in spectrum analysis is well exemplified by two recent developments in the United States. The first of these was the setting up by the American Society for Testing Materials of a committee (E-2) on spectrographic analysis in its application to analytical and metallurgical problems. This committee is now at work and it is probable that tangible results will be forthcoming in the near future. News of the second development has just reached Great Britain. It has been decided that one of the lines of work to be intensively pursued at the magnificently equipped spectroscopic laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the application of spectrum analysis to industrial and related problems. In order that as close touch as is possible may be made with industrial problems, a research conference is to be held at the Institute during the week beginning July 17, and it is hoped that at this conference industrial experts, academic research workers and manufacturers of spectroscopic equipment will meet and discuss those aspects of the problem with which they are individually familiar. It is clear that one of the earliest developed aspects of spectroscopy is again coming very much to the fore, and that the dreams of some of the early spectroscopists regarding the general use of this technique in industry are coming measurably nearer realisation.
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Spectrum Analysis. Nature 131, 393 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131393c0
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