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KAPLAN1 recently succeeded in exciting, in the afterglow of nitrogen, a line, λ 3471 A., that probably corresponds to the forbidden transition 2P ↠4S of NI. Theoretically it is very interesting and curious to see that this line is emitted under relatively high pressure, at the same time as the Vegard-Kaplan bands, which are themselves forbidden.
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GAUZIT, J. Probable Dissociation of Nitrogen Molecules in the High Atmosphere. Nature 142, 572–573 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142572c0
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