Re: Testing atomism

GRMorton@aol.com
Sat, 18 Nov 1995 12:39:44 -0500

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Loren Haarsma wrote:
>>Glenn and everyone else, you'll be glad to know that "color" IS a
meaningful concept for atoms. Sodium atoms, for example, are yellow. :-)
(Shine a yellow light on them, they give back yellow photons; shine other
color lights on them, they don't reflect any back (or at least, at much
lower intensity.) That's "yellow" all right!)<<

I am amazed, and stand happily corrected. Would you by any chance have a
reference on that? I guess I have been out of physics too long.

glenn

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