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Balmer series of hydrogen

Figure 1: Spectrometer utilizing Mössbauer effect concept Effect is usually observed by measuring transmission of gamma rays from radioactive source through absorber containing resonant isotope.

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Also Known As	scanner • scanning spectrometer

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Balmer series of hydrogen

Figure 1: Spectrometer utilizing Mössbauer effect concept Effect is usually observed by measuring transmission of gamma rays from radioactive source through absorber containing resonant isotope.

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Topics

Mössbauer effect Doppler-velocity spectrometer spectrograph spectrophotometer Bragg ionization spectrometer Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer interferometer laser absorption spectrometer Stark-modulated spectrometer collimator monochromator spectrochemical analysis spectrophotometry

Key People

Bertram N. Brockhouse

Canadian physicist