D line
D line
[′dē ‚līn] (spectroscopy)
The yellow line that is the first line of the major series of the sodium spectrum; the doublet in the Fraunhofer lines whose almost equal components have wavelengths of 5895.93 and 5889.96 angstroms respectively.
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