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WAVE-NUMBERS are more convenient than wave-lengths, not only in absorption and the dispersion of a prism1, but also in atomic spectra, hyperfine structure and in the theory of resolution2.
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CANDLER, C. A Unit of Wave-Number. Nature 167, 649 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/167649a0
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