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<a href="http://www.compadre.org/astronomy/items/detail.cfm?ID=488">Blair, Bill. What are Those Squiggly Lines? - Using Light to Learn About the Universe. March 1, 1999.</a>
B. Blair, What are Those Squiggly Lines? - Using Light to Learn About the Universe, WWW Document, (http://violet.pha.jhu.edu/~wpb/spectroscopy/spec_home.html).
Blair, B. (1999, March 1). What are Those Squiggly Lines? - Using Light to Learn About the Universe. Retrieved May 19, 2013, from http://violet.pha.jhu.edu/~wpb/spectroscopy/spec_home.html
Blair, Bill. What are Those Squiggly Lines? - Using Light to Learn About the Universe. March 1, 1999. http://violet.pha.jhu.edu/~wpb/spectroscopy/spec_home.html (accessed 19 May 2013).
Blair, Bill. What are Those Squiggly Lines? - Using Light to Learn About the Universe. 1 Mar. 1999. 19 May 2013 <http://violet.pha.jhu.edu/~wpb/spectroscopy/spec_home.html>.
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