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A band

A Dictionary of Astronomy | 1997 | Copyright

A band A broad Fraunhofer line in the Sun's spectrum at around 759 nm, due to absorption by oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere. Because the oxygen is in molecular form, the A band is actually a group of close, regularly spaced lines over the range 759–768 nm, unresolved at low resolution.

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A band

A Dictionary of Biology | 2004 | Copyright

A band The region of a striated muscle fibre that contains both thick (myosin) and thin (actin) filaments. It is visible as a dark band with a lighter central zone (see H zone) in the middle of a sarcomere.

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