Open AccessThe spark spectra of tellurium— Te IV and Te VI
Author(s) -
K. Ramachandra Rao
Publication year - 1931
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series a, containing papers of a mathematical and physical character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9150
pISSN - 0950-1207
DOI - 10.1098/rspa.1931.0142
Subject(s) - tellurium , spectral line , selenium , main group element , table (database) , spectrum (functional analysis) , chemistry , group (periodic table) , crystallography , physics , inorganic chemistry , computer science , database , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics , transition metal , catalysis
Of the spectra of the elements of the sixth group of the Periodic Table, our knowledge of the series regularities in the spectra of tellurium appears to be the most meagre. McLennan, McLay and McLeod* have suggested, in part tentatively, a few of the deepest combinations of the arc spectrum, and Gibbs and Vieweg have discovered the triplets and a few of the singlets of the spectrum of quadruply-ionised tellurium. Besides these, so far as the author is aware, there are no published records of the analysis of the various spectra of this element. In a former communication!, the doublet system characteristic of selenium IV has been described. Following this work it was considered that the doublet system of the corresponding spectrum of tellurium of the same chemical group could be easily identified. The present paper gives an analysis, as so far obtained, of the third and fifth spectra of the element.