Open AccessFurther spectroscopic studies on the luminous vapour distilled from metallic arcs
Author(s) -
Lord Rayleigh
Publication year - 1926
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.1926.0091
Subject(s) - clearance , mercury (programming language) , distilled water , arc (geometry) , metal , chemistry , materials science , analytical chemistry (journal) , mathematics , metallurgy , chromatography , computer science , medicine , geometry , urology , programming language
This paper continues the investigation of a previous ones entitled "Luminous Vapour from the Mercury Arc, and the Progressive Changes in its Spectrum." Several points (it is hoped) are cleared up, and new phenomena are described. Needless to say, much remains to be done. The present work is an instalment only. 1.Conditions for the Appearance of Higher Members of Spectrum Series . It was found that the lines of the diffuse series from M = 12 upwards, 1p 1 - 12d , 1p 1 - 13d etc., were seen in the distilled mercury vapour, but not in the arc from which the distilled vapour came. This point has now been examined more closely.