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flash spectrum

American  

noun

Astronomy.

  1. the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.

Etymology

Origin of flash spectrum

First recorded in 1895–1900

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