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Why does sodium make fire yellow?

Updated: 4/28/2022
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Energy from the fire temporarily promotes some of the electrons in atoms to higher energy levels. When they fall back down to the ground state, and this emits light of characteristic frequencies ... in the case of sodium, two of the most prominent lines are in the yellow-orange region of the spectrum.

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