Which mechanism causes broadening of spectral lines in gas discharge lamps operating at high pressure?

💡 Explanation

Pressure broadening dominates at high pressures, because frequent atomic collisions interrupt the emitting atoms' wave functions, resulting in a distribution of emitted frequencies; therefore lines broaden rather than the narrowing seen at low pressures via Doppler effects.

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