Thread: Continuous Spectrum of the Sun's Photosphere
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Old 23-July-2007, 08:41 PM
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Thanks, Ken G. I did a bit of Googling on this and came across a paper by Rupert Wildt from 1939 attributing the continuous spectrum to H- ions and the free electrons they give rise to. I had never heard of such ions before.
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