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The magnesium arc in hydrogen gives the three flutings discovered by 

 Liveing and Dewar * in the magnesium-hydrogen spark, with first heads 

 at 5618, 5210, and 4849, and running toward the shorter wave lengths. 

 The fluting at 5210, which is the cme showing the plainest on my photo- 

 graphs, is made up of such very fine lines near the heads that the princi- 

 pal head appears like a line by itself; but farther away from the heads the 

 lines seem to become stronger and to overlap one another, so that many of 

 these lines are much stronger than the head itself and their distribution 

 seems quite irregular. I mention this more particularly because it is 

 characteristic of the hydrogen-zinc and hydrogen-sodium flutings de- 

 scribed below. I have noticed that in the spark, the intensity of the 

 magnesium flutings is greatly increased with respect to that of the "b" 

 group by the introduction of inductance in series with the capacity 



* Proc. Roy. Society, 32, 189 (1881). 



