I THINK Lecoq de Boisbaudran was the first who called attention to the fact that the line spectra of the elements are by no means so irregular as they seem to be at first sight. He discovered the ...
WHEN helium at a pressure of about 25 mm. of mercury is excited in such a way as to produce the line spectrum and the band spectrum in comparable intensity, McCallum and Wills 1 find that the band ...