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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