Let us begin with a lemma ( see it in the Engelking's book): IfX isa T; space and for every closed F and every open W that contains F there exists a sequence W;, W,, ... of open subsets of X such that F C U;W; and el(W;) C W fori =1,2,.. then the space X is normal. My question is this: Are there other certain classes of spaces which can be showed normality by this, lemma? I will give an example as following: Every second-countable regular space is normal. Proof: Every regular space with a countable base B satisfies the condition in the lemma, because for any « € F there isaU, € Bsuch that « € Uz C ol(Uz) C W, the family of the all U,'s is countable and FC UperUs-