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IN a recent paper Mitra1 has attempted to explain the remarkable features of the nitrogen afterglow, which have also been studied again by Lord Rayleigh2 on the assumption of an emission that would follow the recombination between the ions N2+ with electrons. It seems difficult to explain the previous observations and those described here by this simple hypothesis.
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Mitra, S. K., "Active Nitrogen: a New Theory" (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta, 1945).
Lord Rayleigh, Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 176, 1 (1940); A, 180, 123 (1942).
Herman, R., C.R. Acad. Sci., 220, 593, 878 (1945).
Lejay, P., C.R. Acad. Sci., 216, 536 (1944).
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HERMAN, L., HERMAN, R. Mechanism of the Emission Spectrum of Active Nitrogen. Nature 161, 1018–1019 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/1611018a0
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