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PROF. R. W. WOOD (Phil. Mag., vol. xxiii., p. 689, 1912) found that mercury vapour, even at the small density corresponding to atmospheric temperature, when illuminated by the ultra-violet mercury radiation λ2536, re-emits this radiation laterally in considerable intensity.
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RAYLEIGH Scattering of Light by Resonating Molecules. Nature 104, 276 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104276c0
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