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Also Known As scanner • scanning spectrometer

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Balmer series of hydrogen
Figure 1: Spectrometer utilizing Mössbauer effect concept Effect is usually observed by measuring transmission of gamma rays from radioactive source through absorber containing resonant isotope.
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Bertram N. Brockhouse
Canadian physicist