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IN 1900, E. P. Lewis observed that nitrogen could be stimulated by an electric discharge to emit a bright yellow glow, which continued for some time after the discharge had ceased; he made a number of spectroscopic observations on the glow ing nitrogen. The present Lord Rayleigh in vestigated the phenomenon in a more general and systematic manner, discovered that the glowing gas had remarkable chemical properties, and named it ‘active nitrogen.’
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HINSHELWOOD, C. Active Nitrogen. Nature 122, 404–407 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122404a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122404a0