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Kuiper band comparison table

Subject	has specie	is a kind of	has wavelength	occurs in	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.
Kuiper band	methane	molecular band	7500 Å	Uranus and Neptune

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