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IT has, I believe, been generally supposed that the green band fluorescence of mercury vapour cannot be excited by optical frequencies much less than that of the mercury resonance line. Houtermans, working in Franck's laboratory, has put forward the view that this green fluorescence results from the excitation of the molecule to the 23P1 state, differing but little in energy from the corresponding state of the atom.
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RAYLEIGH Fluorescence of Mercury Vapour under Low Excitation. Nature 122, 242 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122242a0
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