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IN a recent article1 describing results obtained with the coudé spectrograph of the Mount Wilson Observatory, W. S. Adams gives some details of the identification of a number of interstellar lines with absorption ; lines of various molecules in their lowest possible energy states. Among others he mentions a line at? 3934.3 provisionally assigned to NaH by McKellar2.
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Adams, W. S., Astrophys. J., 93, 11 (1941).
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Gaydon, A. G., and Pearse, R. W. B., Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 173, 37 (1939).
Hori, T., Z. Phys., 62, 352 (1930).
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PANKHURST, R., PEARSE, R. Molecular Sodium Hydride in Interstellar Space. Nature 149, 612–613 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149612c0
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