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A LARGE amount of work has been published on the excitation potentials of metals (the so-called excitation of soft X-rays). On account of the very great complexity, no precise correlation has been achieved between these experiments and the results of the theory of metal structure. But—especially in view of the scarcity of spectroscopic data on metals—it would seem that there should be, concealed in these results, information of fundamental importance for the theory of metals, if only we knew how to use them. The chief essential for any such use is to attain the utmost possible simplification, and thus, just as the theory of atoms was built up from results on hydrogen, one is led to the study of the excitation potentials of metallic lithium.
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SKINNER, H. The Excitation Potentials of Metallic Lithium. Nature 128, 114 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128114a0
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