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THE structure of the lines of the Balmer spectrum of hydrogen was investigated in this laboratory some years ago. Recently we have attacked the problem again, using two Lummer plates, not crossed as in the investigations of Kent, Taylor and Pearson1, but dispersing in the same plane. With this arrangement, the microphotometer curves of the resultant pattern reveal clearly four distinct components of Hα with intensities and positions roughly as given by theory. There are no ghosts in the Lummer plates and the interference of lines of the secondary spectrum of hydrogen has been eliminated.
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KENT, N., FRYE, R. & ROBINSON, W. Structure of H of Hydrogen. Nature 140, 236 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140236a0
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