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Posted by Brian on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 1:01am.

atoms heated in a sample emit only certain colors of light in sharp lines and not all colors blended together tells us what about the energy of an atom?

• college - bobpursley, Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 6:11am

  Allowed energy states are quantized in an atom, and it emits specific value photons when electrons go from one energy state to another.

  
  

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