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MERCURY vapour of low pressure stimulated by the resonance line λ2537 emits fluorescent light for a time of the order of 10-3 sec. This allows the fluorescence, when generated in a moving current of vapour, to travel away from its place of origin. The fluorescent light shows a spectrum of continuous bands. No complete or satisfactory account of this phenomenon has yet been given, and I do not think that the facts so far available are enough to make it possible.
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RAYLEIGH Metastable Atoms in Mercury Fluorescence. Nature 129, 344 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129344a0
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