Abstract
A study has been made of the emission and absorption spectrum of sulphur dioxide with special emphasis on the region from 2000 to 2600A. It was found possible to run a discharge in flowing S with comparatively little dissociation. The work on absorption was supplementary to that on emission and carried out at the same moderate dispersion. A large proportion of both the emission and absorption bands found fit into a scheme of vibrational levels. The upper levels indicate a frequency of about 375 or an integral multiple of that value. The lower levels confirm the 1150 and 520 frequencies previously observed but leave the third frequency in doubt. The for both the 1150 and 520 frequencies are small, of the order of one for the latter as determined from a progression of sixteen bands.
- Received 2 August 1933
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.44.638
©1933 American Physical Society