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Kirchhoff's law comparison table

Subject	has definition
Kirchhoff's first law	To each chemical species there corresponds a characteristic spectrum.
Kirchhoff's second law	Every element is capable of absorbing the radiation which it is able to emit; this is the phenomenon of the reversal of the lines.

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