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reversal temperature

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reversal temperature [ri′vər·səl ‚tem·prə·chər]
(spectroscopy)
The temperature of a blackbody source such that, when light from this source is passed through a luminous gas and analyzed in a spectroscope, a given spectral line of the gas disappears, whereas it appears as a bright line at lower blackbody temperatures, and a dark line at higher temperatures.


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