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IN recent papers on this subject, Moore and Garth1 describe experiments which indicate that the phenomenon is due to the existence of excited atoms which are formed, after the excitation has been cut off, by the dissociation of molecular particles. They suggest that this particle is the ‘excited’ molecule proposed by Arnot and Milligan2.
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Moore, G. E., and Garth, R. C., Phys. Rev., 60, 208, 216 (1941).
Arnot, F. L., and Milligan, J. C., Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 153, 359 (1936).
Arnot, F. L., and M'Ewen, M. B., Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 165, 133 (1938).
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M'EWEN, M. Afterglow in Mercury Vapour. Nature 148, 532–533 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148532a0
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