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In a flame, the electrons in the outermost shell jump to higher energy orbitals by absorbing heat energy (excited state), and when they jump back from this energy level to the ground state (original) energy level they emit radiation ( in the form of light) of a particular frequency (which is proportional to the energy differrence between these electronic orbitals) and we observe a particular color (corresponding to that particular frequency). This is called electronic absorption/emission spectra.

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