English Explanatory Dictionary

Paschen-Back effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A form of the Zeeman effect that affects the spectral lines obtained when a light source is placed in a very strong magnetic field.

Word forms

Paschen-Back effect Paschen-Back effects

Etymology

From Friedrich Paschen and Ernst Emil Alexander Back, German physicists.

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