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Zeeman effect

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Physics the effect produced upon the structure of the spectral lines of light emitted or absorbed by atoms subjected to a moderately strong magnetic field, resulting in the splitting of each spectrum line into two or three lines (normal Zeeman effect) or into many lines (anomalous Zeeman effect)

Origin of Zeeman effect

after Zeeman


Zeeman effect

noun

The splitting of single spectral lines of an emission spectrum into three or more polarized components when the radiation source is in a magnetic field.

Origin of Zeeman effect

AfterPieter Zeeman


zeeman-effect

Noun

(plural Zeeman effects)

  1. (physics) the splitting of single spectral lines into three (more) in the presence of a magnetic field
Origin

After Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist.


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