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THE spectrum of the sulphur dioxide afterglow was first investigated in detail by Gaydon1, who reported that it appeared to be continuous over its entire range from 2400 Å into the visible, apart from some weak bands above 3800 Å which are now known to arise from the (0,0,0) and (0,1,0) levels of the 3B1 state of SO2 (refs. 2 and 3). More recently, Herman et al.4 have investigated the afterglow at low pressures and found no evidence of banded structure; they confirmed Gaydon's view that the afterglow was due to the chemiluminescent combination of O and SO, but did not establish whether it required a third body.
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HALSTEAD, C., THRUSH, B. Chemiluminescent Reactions of SO with O and with O3. Nature 204, 992–993 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/204992a0
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