An Instrument for the Photometering of the New X-Ray Lines-[Duane W ]化学.pdf

322 PHYSICS: W. DUANE PROC. N. A. S. for the Rydberg constant, the value of the Rydberg constant being cR0 = 3.2899 X 1016 cm.; and (c) Einsteins quantum equation. The experi- mental values of e and of h are not used in this calculation of mo, nor are the results of any other experiments than ours on the reflection of x-rays by calcite, and the experimental determinations of the fundamental con- stants d and cR,. From our value of mo and frommetsurements by others of e/mO we can calculate first e and then h. AN INSTRUMENT FOR THE PHOTOMETERING OF THE NEW X-RA Y LINES By WILLIAM DUANE PHYSIcAL RESEARCH LABORATORY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Communicated March 4, 1932 In the PROCEEDINGS of the National Academy of Sciences for January, 1932, appears an article in which I describe experiments on the new K series x-ray lines, of which I spoke in a paper presented to the American Physical Society at its New York meeting in February, 1931. The end of the article contains several photometer curves of the ,B doublet, the ey line and a few of the new lines belonging to the molybdenum K series spectrum. The photometer now existing in the Jefferson Laboratory produced some of these curves, and for the other curves it gives me great pleasure to thank Dr. DuMond of the California Institute-of Technology. Recently I have designed and had set up in our new Physical Research a Laboratory photometer for drawing curves of x-ray spectra. Thephotom- eter contains some new features. Figure 1 represents the instrument. At the extreme right of the figure appears a box of considerable size, which- contains a high powered electric lamp (a one-kilowatt lamp, for instance). The photographic negative of the x-ray line spectrum to be examined by the photometer lies just below a.