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Spectroscopy on colored flames

When observing colored fire through a spectrometer after adding substances like copper chloride or magnesium sulfate to change its color, what specific spectra are typically observed? How does the ...
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What determines the wavelength in absorption?

When looking at absorption or reflectance spectra, say in the range of 400nm to 2500nm, you can see peaks (or dips) at certain wavelengths, that are characteristic for the material absorbing and ...
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Wavelengths of light outside our solar system

The question might have been asked before. Our Sun's rays decompose into 7 elementary colors by using a prism or spectrometry. Can the the colors (their number and wave length in the spectrum ) be ...
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Why don't we get infinite energy from a continous emission spectrum?

If the spectrum emitted contains all kinds of photons of all kinds of wavelengths, doesn't that mean it should have infinite number of photons of very small energies? For example, 4000 angstrom to ...
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What are the advantages of radio spectroscopy? [closed]

What is the main purpose for radio spectroscopy? What information of the atomic structure of atoms can we gain from using radio frequency radiation rather than X-rays? Since the wavelength of radio ...
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