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  2. Excited state - Wikipedia

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    The ground state (blue) is x 2 –y 2 orbitals; the excited orbitals are in green; the arrows illustrate inelastic x-ray spectroscopy. In quantum mechanics , an excited state of a system (such as an atom , molecule or nucleus ) is any quantum state of the system that has a higher energy than the ground state (that is, more energy than the ...

  3. Ionized-air glow - Wikipedia

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    Nitrogen glow Oxygen glow Electrical discharge in air Particle beam from a cyclotron. Ionized-air glow is the luminescent emission of characteristic blue–purple–violet light, often of a color called electric blue, by air subjected to an energy flux either directly or indirectly from solar radiation.

  4. Chemiluminescence - Wikipedia

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    Green and blue glow sticks. One of the oldest known chemiluminescent reactions is that of elemental white phosphorus oxidizing in moist air, producing a green glow. This is a gas-phase reaction of phosphorus vapor, above the solid, with oxygen producing excited states of (PO) 2 and HPO. [7]

  5. Sisyphus cooling - Wikipedia

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    Physical principle of Sisyphus cooling: The atoms are running against the potential energy, become excited into a higher band, fall back into a low-energy state (i.e. from the rather high "blue" state upwards, then immediately backwards to the lower "red" state), always on the left-hand side, from which, after one and a half of the "red" or "blue" period, say, of the laser action, they get ...

  6. Quenching (fluorescence) - Wikipedia

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    Dexter (also known as Dexter exchange or collisional energy transfer, colloquially known as Dexter Energy Transfer) is another dynamic quenching mechanism. [12] Dexter electron transfer is a short-range phenomenon that falls off exponentially with distance (proportional to e −kR where k is a constant that depends on the inverse of the van der Waals radius of the atom [citation needed]) and ...

  7. Molecular orbital - Wikipedia

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    The orbital wave functions are positive in the red regions and negative in the blue. The right column shows virtual MO's which are empty in the ground state, but may be occupied in excited states. In chemistry , a molecular orbital ( / ɒr b ə d l / ) is a mathematical function describing the location and wave-like behavior of an electron in a ...

  8. Rural counties in California, Illinois push to secede from ...

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    A movement in a myriad of rural counties across deep blue states such as Illinois and California to split off and form new states appears to be gaining some steam in the wake of the Nov. 5 election.

  9. Flame test - Wikipedia

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    In flame tests, ions are excited thermally. These excited states then relax to the ground state with emission of a photon. The energy of the excited state(s) and associated emitted photon is characteristic of the element. The nature of the excited and ground states depends only on the element.