If you overlay all atomic spectra, you get a Planck distribution

Re:If you overlay all atomic spectra, you get a Planck distr... by crankylinuxuser on Monday May 11, 2020 @09:28AM (#23141867)

Or it can be seen as "we need some standard, so we'll use NIST".

Then the data is at least normalized with respect to NIST.

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Re:If you overlay all atomic spectra, you get a Planck distr... by SiempreViernes on Monday May 11, 2020 @09:35AM (#23141945)

You'll have to explain why using a single database, when there are several available that focus on being extra reliable on different elements, is a defensible choice.

I fully understand "let's just use NIST because that's easiest", but that's not a serious attitude if you want to claim something about reality rather than the NIST database itself.

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Re:If you overlay all atomic spectra, you get a Planck distr... by crankylinuxuser on Monday May 11, 2020 @09:45AM (#23142053)

I see that you only attacked the data source, NIST. You didn't attack/discuss normalization of said data, which was 1/2 of what I said.

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Re:If you overlay all atomic spectra, you get a Planck distr... by SiempreViernes on Monday May 11, 2020 @09:57AM (#23142191)

What normalisation? There's certainly no clear talk of normalisation in the paper.

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