Abstract
The far ultraviolet absorption spectrum of oxygen has been photographed under high dispersion in the region 1300-650A. The bands are explained as going to the various excited states of as limits and are attributed to the removal of , and electrons, respectively, from the normal state of . The results strongly support Mulliken's assignment of the visible bands to the transition . The distances of the and states of from the ground state of are given as 16.1 and 18.2 volts, respectively, with possible errors of about a tenth of a volt. The appearance and nonappearance of strong electronic series going to known ionization potentials are also discussed.
- Received 8 August 1935
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.48.714
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