Re: Hot and Green?

In sci.chem jacques jedwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Radium) wrote:

:> If copper is heated enough to glow, will it give out green light?

: The spark spectrum of Cu (as generated in visible/UV spectrography) is
: mainly green. T is about 6000?C. You see it in your neighbourhood if it
: has a tramway with aerial line.

When I was in high school, I took a gander at the flame of a bunsen burner
through a cheap spectroscope.  There was a prominent green line.  I assumed
that it was Cu from brass in the burner itself (the room lights were off,
so if it was an Hg line, it certainly wasn't from the room fluorescents).

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Richard Schultz                              [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
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