series-spectra

Updated: May 1, 2025

Through these studies so-called series-spectra have been attained for various elements, and a comparison of these series-spectra with the spectra of various stars has led to the conclusion that many of the unknown lines previously traced in the spectra of such stars are due to the decomposition products of familiar elements; all of which, of course, is directly in line of proof of the dissociation hypothesis.

Edward Huntington Williams - A History of Science, Volume 5 : Aspects Of Recent Science