Pickering series
English
Etymology
Named after Edward Charles Pickering.
Proper noun
- Three lines of singly ionized helium found, usually in absorption, in the spectra of hot stars, produced by transitions of an electron with principal quantum number n=4 state from a higher energy level.
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