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Effect of Low Temperature on the Absorption Spectra of Hæmoproteins; with Observations on the Absorption Spectrum of Oxygen

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INTEREST in the sharpening, and in certain cases the displacement and splitting, of absorption bands at very low temperatures has hitherto been limited to the field of molecular physics, in so far as these changes have offered useful information on the molecular structure of a number of substances1,2.

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KEILIN, D., HARTREE, E. Effect of Low Temperature on the Absorption Spectra of Hæmoproteins; with Observations on the Absorption Spectrum of Oxygen. Nature 164, 254–259 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164254a0

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