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From: don@allegra.UUCP (D. Mitchell)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: answer to Zeeman effect question
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Date: Sat, 11-Feb-84 20:49:52 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 11 20:49:52 1984
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Putting an atom into a magnetic field does not create new energy levels
that electrons can "fall into".  It takes some levels that use to have
the same energy and moves some up and the others down a little.  There
are still the same number of "slots" for the electrons.