ShmoopTube

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Hurry And here's your shmoop too sure brought to you

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by carnival barkers And no we don't mean dogs that

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run the tilt a world machine Yeah Different All right

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At the carnival barker offers to give a machine that

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makes hydrogen atoms to anyone who can show him any

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mission spectrum How could we do this and win the

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machine like let's Make a deal All right And here

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the potential answers Interesting That split hired an atlantic good

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one All right we've seen the ring toss and the

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game where you throw darts at balloons But we've never

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seen the emission spectrum game but what's in a mission

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spectrum First of all well when energy is added to

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an atom the electrons in orbit get all worked up

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They jump up into the next orbital energy level Like

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us when we get all sugared up Yeah but eventually

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they go back down to a lower level When they

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go back down to a lower level of energy the

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electrons emit a photons will The wavelength of the photon

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is determined by the amount of energy lost when it

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moves down and that wavelength determines the color of the

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light That we see or don't see the wave length

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can produce infrared or ultraviolet light that's invisible to us

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that the correct answer is a way have to get

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those electrons jumping up in order to make them fall

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back down in its unexcited state We can't remove energy

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from it so b is out and putting two hydrogen

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atoms together isn't going to do much Maybe they'll become

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friends and hang out together but well that won't produce

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any photons so see won't work And if we split

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the atom like answer d says well that might make

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the whole carnival go Kaboom yeah that's what would happen

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so no to get an emission spectrum we have to

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get electrons all hopped up so they convention fall back

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down So the correct answer is a

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