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A chemist identifies compounds by identifying bright lines in their spectra. She does so by healing the compounds until they glow, sending the light through a diffraction grating, and measuring the positions of first-order spectral lines on a detector 15.0 cm behind the grating. Unfortunately, she has lost the card that gives the specifications of the grating. Fortunately, she has a known compound that she can use to calibrate the grating. She heats the known compound, which emits light at a wavelength of 461 nm, and observes a spectral line 9.95 cm from the center of the diffraction pattern. What are the wavelengths emitted by compounds A and B that have spectral lines detected at positions 8.55 cm and 12.15 cm, respectively?
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