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WITH reference to M. Ponte's letter in NATURE of Feb. 18, p. 243, may I say that my letter in the issue of Nov. 19, 1927, p. 727, did not pretend to be a full account of the development of the spectrum of mercury by the method of the electrodeless discharge, nor was it my intention to give the impression that I thought the phenomena observed were necessarily dependent on the short wave-length of the exciting oscillations. It was stated in that letter that the spectrum of mercury was examined as a preliminary to work on other substances; one of the advantages of this procedure was that mercury had already been studied by MM. E. and L. Bloch, using a similar method.
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CLARKE, J. The Excitation of Spectra by High Frequency Oscillations. Nature 121, 282 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121282a0
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