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\lambda = \frac{k_{B}T}{\sqrt(2)\rho P}  \end{equation}  Thus by varying temperature and vapor pressure, the distance an electron travels before interacting with an atom will change.   \par  For all elements, fixed value DC voltage sources and potentiometers were replaced by constant current/constant voltage power supplies with adjustable voltages. In order to obtain the resolution needed to see the complicated shape of the excitation curve the output voltage from a current preamplifier and the accelerating voltage were connected to two separate digital multimeters. Data was obtained for the monatomic gases using a graphing software called DANA, which is directly linked to the output of the Keithley 2100 multimeter (measuring $V_{acc}$) and the Keysight 34465A multimeter ($V_{out}$). Not only was the current preamplifier introduced in the experimental setup for Neon and Argon in order to convert current to voltage but it was also used to reduce noise. Since the output of the current preamp was very noisy in the absence of a filter, a lowpass filter was introduced to remove frequencies above $30 Hz$. While some of this fine structure is clearly visible in the collected data, not enough data was collected for the observed fine structure to be quantifiable.