The Spectra of Helium and Hydrogen | Nature

RECENTLY Prof. Fowler (Month. Not. Roy. Astr. Soc, December, 1912) has observed a number of new lines by passing a condensed discharge through mixtures of hydrogen and helium. Some of these

lines coincide closely with lines of the series observed by Pickering in the spectrum of the star ς Puppis, and attributed to hydrogen in consequence of its simple numerical relation to the

ordinary Balmer series. Other lines coincide closely with the series predicted by Rydberg and denoted as the principal series of the hydrogen spectrum. The rest of the new lines show a very

simple relation to those of the latter series, but apparently have no place in Rydberg's theory.

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