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In a recent paper, Lord Rayleigh has discussed the causes which determine the widths of spectrum lines, and which he summarises as follows:— (1) The translator motion of the radiating particles in the line of sight, operating in accordance with Doppler's principle. (ii) A possible effect of the rotation of the particles.
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Thomas Merton (1916) studied this question.
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