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Fraunhofer Lines

Webster's Dictionary

The lines of the spectrun; especially and properly, the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so called because first accurately observed and interpreted by Fraunhofer, a German physicist.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Fraunhofer Lines'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​f/fraunhofer-lines.html. 1828.