English Explanatory Dictionary

Pickering series

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Three lines of singly ionized helium found, usually in absorption, in the spectra of hot stars, produced by transitions of an electron with principal quantum number n=4 state from a higher energy level.

Word forms

Pickering series

Etymology

Named after Edward Charles Pickering.

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