The beam-foil technique has been used to measure mean lives of some excited states in Mg I, Cd I, and Mg ii. The reported Mg I and Cd I lifetimes are considerably shorter than the mean lives recently reported by Schaefer, using the delayed-coincidence technique.
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Andersen et al. (1972) studied this question.
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