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To make an atom emit light, an atom in the outer shell, or valence shell, must be knocked into a higher orbit. When it falls back to its valence shell, it falls back a specific distance and emits a photon of a specific wavelength. We see that as light of a particular color. Every element will have the orbit above the valence shell at exactly the same place. Each material will emit light of exactly the same color. To get a laser that will emit different colors, you would need to make your laser from several different materials.

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