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X; I HAVE not yet done with the spot-spectrum referred to in last article. Not only is there general absorption, but there are indications of increased selective absorption in the case of the line D, as I could also show if I were dealing with the iron lines, the magnesium lines, or the other well-known lines of the solar spectrum. Not only, then, have we a general absorption, increasing as the middle of the sunspot is approached, but this sodium line D is also thickened, so that we have, as a result of a single examination of a single sunspot, the fact that a sunspot is due to general absorption, plus special absorption in some particular lines.
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LOCKYER, J. On the Spectroscope and its Applications . Nature 8, 104–106 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008104a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/008104a0