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Zman
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Why don’t emission and absorption properties of an atom cancel out such that no such spectral lines are seen.
If electrons in atoms are excited from level 1 to level 2 and absorb energy at some specific frequency, why don’t they then emit that same frequency when they fall back down to level1 and cancel out the absorption lines with the emission lines.
Thanks
If electrons in atoms are excited from level 1 to level 2 and absorb energy at some specific frequency, why don’t they then emit that same frequency when they fall back down to level1 and cancel out the absorption lines with the emission lines.
Thanks