Bunsen-Kirchhoff law

noun

Bun·sen-Kirch·hoff law

-ənˈkirˌkȯf-,

-rkˌhȯf-

: a statement in spectroscopy: each chemical element has an emission spectrum of bright lines and an absorption spectrum of dark lines which are characteristic of the element

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after Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff †1887 German physicist, its formulators

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