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High Sensitivity

DEC 01, 1949

DOI: 10.1063/1.3066341

E. Bright Wilson

Wartime developments in radar have made available equipment for producing and detecting short radio waves of a few millimeters to centimeters in length so that it is now convenient and easy to study the absorption of various substances, particularly gases, in this region of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Volume 2, Number 12

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