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Studies of the Raman spectrum of crystalline alumina are rather scanty and incomplete, evidently because of its comparative feebleness and a continuous fluorescence accompanying it. Deutschbein1, who was the first to investigate the case, recorded only a single frequency shift of 415 cm−1. Later, a second Raman line with a frequency shift of 376 cm−1 was noticed by Miss A. Mani2. A subsequent unpublished investigation by the latter3 gave a hint of the existence of other faint lines besides the two already reported, among which two with frequency shifts 752 cm−1 and 633 cm−1 appeared most definite. It seemed likely that the use of the intense λ 2536.5 mercury resonance radiation as exciter would yield a much more satisfactory Raman spectrum for the substance. This hope has been realized in the present investigation. A large boule of synthetic alumina presented to Sir C. V. Raman by the Linde Air Products Co. of New York gave satisfactory results: unlike the majority of samples of synthetic alumina, this particular one did not become coloured under ultraviolet irradiation.
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KRISHNAN, R. Raman Spectrum of Alumina and the Luminescence and Absorption Spectra of Ruby. Nature 160, 26 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160026a0
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