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Chemistry on flame colors
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can someone further explain to me why and how flames change their color?
we did this experiment wherein a cotton ball was soaked with ethanol and a particular solution, and for every cotton ball, a different color came out.
we did this experiment wherein a cotton ball was soaked with ethanol and a particular solution, and for every cotton ball, a different color came out.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.For sodium compounds, if theflame is hot enough, it is the Na+, whcih is being heated or excited and giving out the yellow colour
(rather unexciting - copper is better, a witch's flame according to coutnry folk, and rubidium gives a deep red (ruby?) colour)
and for sodium, the yellow colour is the same qavelength as the yellow of sodium lights
(which I am afraid you are gonna have to look up)
(rather unexciting - copper is better, a witch's flame according to coutnry folk, and rubidium gives a deep red (ruby?) colour)
and for sodium, the yellow colour is the same qavelength as the yellow of sodium lights
(which I am afraid you are gonna have to look up)
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