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When energy is added to an atom, some of the electrons will transit to a higher energy orbit. When they eventually decay from that orbit to their usual one, they will emit an electromagnetic wave, that we call light, that may be seen. This particular wavelength of light is quite particular to that element and to that transition.

So we may look at a distant star and see what elements it has!!

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