RELATIONSHIPS OBSERVED IN COLORED FLAMES

Abstract

Excitation purity of a sodium-yellow flame was observed to be a decreasing function of the magnesium content in the flare. The chromaticity coordinates representing a wide variety of sodium-yellow, barium-green and strontium-red flares when plotted on a chromaticity diagram appear to take the form of straight lines which converge toward a common point. Several theories are proposed to explain the observations, the convergence point and the intercept point of the convergence line with the chromaticity diagram perimeter.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 25, 1964
Accession Number
AD0607490

Entities

People

  • B. E. Douda

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Chromaticity
  • Convergence
  • Corporations
  • Elements
  • Emission
  • Emitters
  • Excitation
  • Hard Copy
  • Magnesium
  • Magnesium Compounds
  • Metals
  • Munitions
  • New Jersey
  • Observation
  • Ordnance Laboratories
  • Strontium

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  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
  • Materials Science and Engineering.