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Definition of Fraunhofer lines

Fraunhofer lines
Fraunhofer lines Fraun"ho*fer lines` (Physics.) The lines of the spectrun; especially and properly, the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so called because first accurately observed and interpreted by Fraunhofer, a German physicist.

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- The Fraunhofer lines are a set of spectral absorption lines. They are dark absorption lines, seen in the optical spectrum of the Sun, and are formed when...
- the dark absorption lines in the spectrum of the sun now known as Fraunhofer lines. The German research organization Fraunhofer Society, which is Europe's...
- crater Fraunhofer Society (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft), a large German research organization Fraunhofer diffraction, far-field diffraction Fraunhofer lines, spectral...
- Fraunhofer line designation, such as K for a line at 393.366 nm emerging from singly-ionized calcium atom, Ca+, though some of the Fraunhofer "lines"...
- In optics, the Fraunhofer diffraction equation is used to model the diffraction of waves when plane waves are incident on a diffracting object, and the...
- relatively strong compared to lines from other elements. The first two Balmer lines correspond to the Fraunhofer lines C and F. The spectral classification...
- observation of the Balmer lines of hydrogen. By 1859, Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen noticed that several Fraunhofer lines (lines in the solar spectrum)...
- Fraunhofer independently rediscovered the lines and began to systematically study and measure their wavelengths, and they are now called Fraunhofer lines...
- physicist Joseph Fraunhofer also examined the solar spectrum, and found about 600 such dark lines (missing colors), are now known as Fraunhofer lines, or Absorption...
- between Fraunhofer lines B and C and the other near the D line. An estimate of the relevant wavelengths can be made by referring to the Fraunhofer lines article...