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different for the two members of the doublet. For larger fields when the dis|)lacemenls 

 of the components of these resolutions become of the same order of magnitude as 

 the original width of the doublet the resolutions undergo, as shown by Paschkn 

 and Bach^), gradual alterations until for very large fields all components of holh 

 members flow together into a normal Zeeman triplet. These effects which clearly 

 have intimate connection with the unknown mechanism responsible for the doubling 

 of the lines can obviously not be explained on the basis of the general considerations 

 mentioned above. It would appear likelj', however, that the difficullies in explaining 

 the values of the additional energj' in the atom in the presence of a magnetic field 

 necessary to account for the anomalous effects by means of (1) are connected with 

 the fact mentioned on page 81 that in the normal state of the atom, as shown by 

 the absence of paramagnetism, the behaviour of the inner electrons cannot be de- 

 termined by the simple considerations referred to. 



1) F. Paschen uud E. Bach, Ann. d. Phys. XXXIX, p. 897, (1912). 



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