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Baldet-Johnson band comparison table

Subject	has specie	is a kind of	has definition
molecular band	molecule	set of molecular lines	A series of closely spaced, often unresolved, emission or absorption lines found in the spectra of molecules. Each line represents an increment of energy due to a change in the rotational state of the molecule.
Baldet-Johnson band	CO+ radical	molecular band

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