• DrQuint@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Eh, I think it’s an hard clear Yes. The radiation released by an element when coming out of an excited state depends on the energy difference between N levels and it is generally consistent for that given element.

      How do they get excited? You give them energy. How? One way is by shinning a light.

      Is there a name for radiation of a specific frequency within the visible spectrum? Yes. A color.

      All rare gas lightbulbs even have a specific color.

      The only way for us to discount the emission specturm as a color is if we go philosophical about the nature of color. And that’s for literary nerds, not physics nerds, and I doubt people google the former as frequently as the latter.

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        1 year ago

        True, but a childish intuition about “having a color” would most likely imply that you can see a structure of the thing (like a ball) that is colored in (which you can’t with atoms). On the other hand if you consider an atom a tiny pointsource, like a star in the sky, then it makes sense again.