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THE very interesting observation of the anomalous dispersion of luminous hydrogen in the neighbourhood of the Ha line recorded by Messrs. R. Ladenburg and Stanislaw Loria in NATURE of November 5 (p. 7), and the known absence of the phenomena in ordinary hydrogen, show conclusively that the spectrum lines of a substance are not free periods of the atoms in their normal state, but only of those systems produced somehow by the agency which gives rise to the spectra.
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EAGLE, A. The Origin of Spectra. Nature 79, 68 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/079068a0
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