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Every element, when heated, sends out light with characteristic spectral lines. These same lines are also absorbed when the element is present in an atmosphere between a light source and the observer. When studying spectral lines of the sun some lines were noted that were not known on earth, from which we concluded that there must be an inknown new element. Which was subsequently found on earth.

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