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IN Prof. Young's letter published in NATURE, vol vii., P. 17, some coincidences of the lines of different substances which “are too many and too close to be all the result of accident” are referred to, those of iron with calcium and titanium being especially cited. Two explanations are offered, first that “the metals operated upon by the observers who first mapped out the spectra were not absolutely pure,” and second, that “there is some such similarity between the molecules of the different metals as renders them susceptible of certain synchronous periods of vibration.”
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WILLIAMS, W. Coincidence of the Spectrum Lines of Iron, Calcium, and Titanium. Nature 8, 46 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008046d0
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