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IN an important paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society for January, Raman and Krishnan give an account of their researches on the production of new radiations by light-scattering. In 1928 they announced the discovery that when a transparent medium is irradiated by monochromatic light the radiations scattered by the molecules contain spectral lines of modified frequencies. The difference between the incident and the scattered frequencies corresponds to a characteristic infra-red frequency of the molecule. Such new lines are clearly shown in the beautiful spectrograms which illustrate their paper. The authors direct attention to the usefulness of this phenomenon as a substitute for infra-red spectroscopy.
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ALLEN, H. Light-Scattering and the Hydrogen Spectrum. Nature 123, 127 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123127b0
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