Why do atoms emit a definite line spectrum of only certain energies instead of a continuous spectrum of energy
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It's because electrons are quantized, they can only be at certain levels of energy.
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Well, here's the long version, anyway...
Atoms, or rather, the electrons around atoms, only emit a definite spectrum because these electrons have only certain levels they can "jump to" as they orbit the nucleus. An electron needs a certain amount of energy to get from level one to level two, for example, 13.6 eV (electron volts, a unit of energy) and more energy will cause it to miss the first energy level and "fall back" and not enough energy will cause the electron to only get halfway or a third of the way there and then fall back to where it started. There aren't "in between" levels, at least not as we've observed an atom.
Certain amounts of energy produce the quantized spectrum instead of the continuous spectrum because not every energy amount (e.g. 5.39847 eV) will provide an electron with the energy it needs to jump energy levels. And while 13.6 eV may get an electron from level one to level two, it'd be too much to go from level two to level three.
(An electron can get energy by either being induced by an outside electric/magnetic field or by gaining energy from a photon which collided with it.)
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Yeah, as someone said, electrons exist at certain levels.
They exist at level zero, or 1, or 2..to infinity.
There is no level, 0.5, or 1.25.
So an electron at its ground state (zero) will stay there until enough energy is added for it to jump level 1 (its an instantaneous jump, not a progression ). You keep adding energy and it stays at level 1 until again, it has enough to jump to level 2, and it goes straight to level 2..etc.
Imagine it this way, you want to go to a blackjack table and the minimum number of chips you can have is $25...there is another table with $100 in minimum chips.
So you join the $25 table and even if you have $99...you still stay at that table until you get $100 or more...then you can jump to the $100 table.
because of the presence of different orbits
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