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Spectral analysis is the best and easiest way to discern the presence of even elusive traces of any chemical element; spectra are like fingerprints. This was suggested by Fraunhofer already—in 1817 and in 1820. It got first established forty years later by Bunsen and Kirchhoff, and at once Bunsen used it to discover new elements.
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Agassi, J. (1993). Kirchhoff’s Law. In: Radiation Theory and the Quantum Revolution. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7216-4_5
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