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anomalous Zeeman effect comparison table

Subject	has effect	is a kind of	has cause	has definition
Zeeman effect	splitting of a spectral line into a multiplet of lines with distinct polarization characteristics.	line broadening	the influence of an magnetic field on a radiating atom or ion.	Line broadening due to the influence of magnetic fields.
anomalous Zeeman effect	splitting of spectral lines into more than two components	Zeeman effect	the influence of magnetic fields on both the orbital angular momentum and the spin angular momentum of electrons in atoms or ions	Zeeman effet in which spectral lines are split into several components, in contrast to the normal Zeeman effect which results in only two distinct components.

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