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Energy can be released from a pigment with an excited electron by what method?
Energy can be released from a pigment with an excited electron through the emission of light, a process known as fluorescence. When an electron returns to its ground state from an excited state, the energy difference is released as light energy.
If an electron has absorbed energy and has shifted to a higher energy level the electron is said to be what?
This electron is called excited.
What causes an electron to go from a ground state to excited state?
Typically, an electron goes into an excited state when a photon (a particle of light) with just the right wavelength strikes it. For most molecules, these photons are in the Ultraviolet / Visible light spectrum.
How does an excited atom get to a ground state?
An excited atom can return to its ground state by releasing energy in the form of photons. This process is known as spontaneous emission. The released photons have lower energy than the original absorbed photons, causing the atom to transition back to a lower energy state, typically the ground state.
What is the amount of energy released by an electron as it returned to ground state?
The energy released by an electron as it returns to the ground state is equal to the difference in energy between its initial excited state and the ground state. This energy is typically released in the form of a photon with a specific wavelength determined by the energy difference.
When an electron gets excited is energy released or absorbed?
When an electron gets excited, energy is absorbed to move the electron to a higher energy level. This absorbed energy gets released when the electron returns to its original energy level, emitting electromagnetic radiation such as light.
What happens to molecules if they receive electromagnetic radiation?
They are excited and their energy increases and possibly ejects an electron and change their size and shape..They will often absorb part of the radiation; in that case, their energy will increase.
When radiation is absorbed by a hydrogen electron the hydrogen atom changes its ground state to?
When a hydrogen electron absorbs radiation, it moves to an excited state. The electron jumps to a higher energy level, causing the hydrogen atom to change its ground state to an excited state.
Is the emission of electromagnetic radiation by an excited atom is it a wave or a particle?
a particle traveling in wave form.
What theory of light best explains the emission of electromagnetic radiation of an excited atom?
Quantum Mechanics
What can be said of the amount of energy that an electron absorbs when it is excited compared to the amount of energy that it releases when it returns to ground state?
When an electron is excited, it absorbs a specific amount of energy to move to a higher energy state. When it returns to its ground state, it releases this absorbed energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation. The energy released is equal to the energy absorbed during excitation, following the principle of conservation of energy.
Energy can be released from a pigment with an excited electron by what method?
Energy can be released from a pigment with an excited electron through the emission of light, a process known as fluorescence. When an electron returns to its ground state from an excited state, the energy difference is released as light energy.
What form of energy emission accompanies the return of an excited electron to its ground state?
What form of energy emission accompanies the return of excited electrons to the ground state?
Is the emission of electromagnetic radiation by an excited atom a wave or particle theory?
wave theory of light
If an electron has absorbed energy and has shifted to a higher energy level the electron is said to be what?
This electron is called excited.
What does the change of an atom from an excited state to the ground state always require?
An atom emits a photon (particle of light) when transitioning from a ground state to its excited state. To obey conservation of energy, the energy gained by the atom when an electron moves to a lower energy level is equal to the energy it loses in emitting the photon. (The energy of a photon is E = hf, where E is the energy, h is Planck's constant, and f is the frequency of the photon.) Conversely, when an atom absorbs a photon (as is the case in absorption spectra), the electron absorbing the photon moves to a higher energy level.
What makes things fluorescent?
Fluorescence is produced when an electron excited by an e.m. radiation returns to the ground state and emit a photon.
