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Fluorescence of Organic Mixed Excimers

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Birks and Christophorou1, examining mixed excimers, reported that the sum of the fluorescence intensities from two solutions, one containing c moles of pyrene (component A) and the other c moles of 1-methylpyrene (B). is equal to the fluorescence intensity from a mixed solution containing c moles each of A and B.

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SELINGER, B. Fluorescence of Organic Mixed Excimers. Nature 203, 1062–1063 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2031062b0

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