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molecular band comparison table

Subject	has discoverer	has specie	has definition	has dicovery date	occurs in	is a kind of	has wavelength	has antonym
A band	Joseph Fraunhofer	O2	One of about a dozen of the strongest Fraunhofer lines seen in the Solar spectrum, the A band at 7600 angstoms is due to telluric lines of molecular oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere. (originally thought to originate in the Sun by Fraunhofer)	1814	Earth's atmosphere	Fraunhofer line	7600 Å	emission line
B band	Joseph Fraunhofer	O2	Telluric lines due to O2 absorption in Earth's atmosphere, but originally thought to originate in the Sun by Fraunhofer.	1814	Earth's atmosphere	Fraunhofer line	7100 Å	emission line
Baldet-Johnson band		CO+ radical				molecular band
C2 band		C2 radical				molecular band
G band	Joseph Fraunhofer	CH	A band of CH. It is conspicuous in the spectra of G-K stars.	1814	G star, K star	Fraunhofer line	4303 Å	emission line
interstellar band		molecule				molecular band
Kuiper band		methane			Uranus and Neptune	molecular band	7500 Å
Meinel band		N2+ radical				molecular band	8000 Å
Mulliken band		C2 radical				molecular band
telluric lines		O2, H2O, or CO2	Spectral lines or bands that originate from absorption by gases such as O2, H2O, or CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere.			molecular band
Werner line		H2	Spectral line of molecular hydrogen in the ultraviolet, in the same general region as the Lyman lines.			molecular band	UV

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