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The widening and duplication, triplication, etc., of spectral lines when the radiations emanate in a strong magnetic field, first observed in 1896 by P. Zeeman, a Dutch physicist, and regarded as an important confirmatio…

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  1. The widening and duplication, triplication, etc., of spectral lines when the radiations emanate in a strong magnetic field, first observed in 1896 by P. Zeeman, a Dutch physicist, and regarded as an important confirmation of the electromagnetic theory of light.
  2. The widening and duplication, triplication, etc., of spectrallines when the radiations emanate in a strong magnetic field, firstobserved in 1896 by P. Zeeman, a Dutch physicist, and regarded as animportant confirmation of the electromagnetic theory of light.