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RATHER more than sixty years ago, when the spectroscope became an effective instrument of scientific research through the work of Kirchhoff and Bunsen, it was regarded essentially as providing a new and powerful method of chemical analysis. It soon had brilliant results to show in the discovery of a number of new elements, but this kind of discovery could not go on indefinitely, and the interest of chemists as a body in spectrum analysis would appear to have declined rather rapidly. Spectrum analysis, as was soon realised, was not so simple a matter as it first appeared, and called for so much study that its pursuit was mainly left in the hands of a small band of specialists.
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FOWLER, A. The Analysis of Line Spectra1. Nature 118, 593–596 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118593a0
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