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Describe The Ways In Which Hydrogen And Explain Why It Exists

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The purpose of this lab was to observe and reserve the emission spectra of various elements in which hydrogen was the element that was emphasized on. More specifically, the frequency, initial energy level, and change in energy of the element hydrogen was determined by the wavelength of the light in the hydrogen atom. Since the wavelength of the light in an atom can determine the identity of an element, this explains the reason on how helium was discovered. A French Astronaut, Pierre-Jules-César Janssen, noticed that there was a yellow line in the sun’s spectrum so Janssen decided to conduct some research in order to explain why the line existed. After years of thorough research, Janssen found out that the spectrum had a wavelength of 587.49nm. However, there was no element on Earth during that time that had that wavelength, so it was concluded that this element was a new element that had just been discovered. The reason why helium was discovered in the sun first was because since helium was a noble gas, it was stable so it did not react with any other elements. Therefore, the scientists had no way of discovering the element until the yellow line in the sun’s spectrum appeared. …show more content…

However, using Bohr’s theory, an electron in ground state can also absorb energy in order to move to a higher level, which would be its excited state, but it will eventually fall back to a lower energy level while releasing a photon. More specifically, if the electron falls to the second energy level, then a photon is released into the visible light region which allows the students to see the various colors on the

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