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Paschen-Back effect comparison table

Subject	is a kind of	has definition
line broadening	radiation modification	Increase in the range of wavelengths in which some characteristic emission or absorption occurs.
Paschen-Back effect	line broadening	An effect on spectral lines obtained when the light source is located in a strong magnetic field, so that the magnetic splitting becomes greater than the multiplet splitting.

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