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Where do objects get their color from?

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As electrons are excited by incoming photons, they jump out of their normal orbitals into higher energy states. They quickly soon after fall back into their normal energy state (their ground state). As they fall back into their ground state, they must give off some of their energy, which they do in the form of a photon. The "size" of the jump back to their ground state determines what color this photon will be. Because each molecule has different "spacing" between energy states, they give off different colored photons. This determines the color of an object.

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