What a great intro into the week! This was such a fun experiment to conduct and learn so much about in the short span of time that I did. During this procdure, we learned about the different range of colors with in the fire that igintes from different chemicals and salts. We also learned how a fire produces it's color and what the chemical reaction is to creat such fire. But here is where I will share with you what i learned about the experiment I conducted and some cool photos of the fire test!
So what is making the color in a flame test? Well, that's a great question! The color in the flame test is the amount of energy in a photon. A photon for those of you who don't know is a particle of light that is described as a seperate bundle electromagnetic energy. Next we have to figure out which colors are the highest and lowest in energy! The color red is the lowest energy of light and from there it increases up the spectrum of the rainbow all the way to violet which is the highest color of light in energy. Ok, now that we know the high and lows of the light energy spectrum, I'm going to let you out on a little secret (not really) that I learned was that it's the same thing in frequency! Can you believe it, because I can't! How it works is that photons energy is directly proportional to the frequency of light so the spectrum level is exactly the same. If the energy level goes up the frequency goes up as well! On a new note another thing I learned inorder to understand this experiment was that salt is an ion compound! It's made of cations (positive and negitive charged ions) so the product is electrially neutral. Basically in simpilar form, the salt will burn once ignited with a match after you put solutions! Another thing you'll want to know when you do this on you own is that ground state is when electrons are in the lowest possible energy level and that when electrons are in higher energy shells they get "excited"! That's just some of the basic information I found how about this test, electrons, and what flame colors mean, but for more information ask me in the comments section of this section!
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