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FROM his measurements of intensities in the Balmer emission spectrum due to recombining protons and electrons in the gaseous nebulæ and in an electrodeless discharge tube, T. L. Page concludes that Kramers' absorption law is invalid for hydrogen. The use of this law in astrophysical problems is therefore unjustified.
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Points from Foregoing Letters. Nature 141, 1145 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1411145b0
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