spark excitation

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spark excitation [′spärk ‚ek‚sī′tā·shən]

(spectroscopy)

The use of an electric spark (10,000 to 30,000 volts) to excite spectral line emissions from otherwise hard-to-excite samples; used in emission spectroscopy.

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