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Spectral Analysis Quiz

  1. One example of a spectrum that most people have seen is:



  2. In order to make a spectrograph, you must



  3. Because each element has a unique spectrum, we can use spectra from objects such as stars to tell us



  4. X-ray spectra are especially useful because



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