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Also unlike a planet, an electron__f excited by heat or light__an leap from its low-energy shell to an empty, high-energy shell. The electron cannot stay in the high-energy state for long, so it soon crashes back down. But this isn__ a simple back-and-forth motion, because as it crashes, the electron jettisons energy by emitting light.
Sam Kean The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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Also unlike a planet, an electron__f excited by heat or light__an leap from its low-energy shell to an empty, high-energy shell. The electron cannot stay in the high-energy state for long, so it soon crashes back down. But this isn__ a simple back-and-forth motion, because as it crashes, the electron jettisons energy by emitting light.
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

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