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Atomic Spectra Lab
Name _______________________ # ____
Date ______
Name _______________________ # ____ Name _____________________ # ____ Atomic Spectral Lines
Emission Spectrum for Iron
1. Use the voltage source to illuminate a spectrum tube. Point the spectroscope at the spectrum tube and
move it until you see several sharp lines near the right side of the spectroscope
2. Draw the bright line spectral lines made by hydrogen, helium, mercury, neon, and krypton below.
Match these lines up with the numbers you see inside the spectroscope. (15 points)
Hydrogen
4 5 6 7
Helium
4 5 6 7
Mercury
4 5 6 7
Neon
4 5 6 7
Krypton
4 5 6 7
a) The numbers 4, 5, 6 and 7 inside your spectroscope are actually abbreviations for what four
numbers? (2 points)
b) What is the wavelength of red light found in the atomic spectra of hydrogen? (2 points)
c) If you sent the full spectrum of light through a cool sample of hydrogen, which colors would it
absorb? (2 points)
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Questions
1. What is the job of a spectroscope? (2 points)
2. View the light coming from outside through the spectroscope. Describe how the light you see
from outside different than what you observed when you viewed the light from the gases? (5
points)
3. Use the energy diagram below to answer the following questions.
a. Draw arrows on the diagram to show all the energy level transitions an electron could make
that would result in the emission of a photon. (6)
b. How many emission lines could we observe from this atom? ______ (2)
c. Which transition would emit light with the highest frequency (shortest wavelength)? From n = _______ to n = ________ . (2)
d. Which transition would emit light with the lowest frequency (longest wavelength)?
From n = _______ to n = ________ . (2)
4. Which particle in an atom gives off the light energy that produces spectral lines you
observed? (4 points)
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5. Draw the bright line spectral lines you would expect to observe if you saw a mixture of
hydrogen and helium through a spectroscope. (2 pts)
Hydrogen and Helium
4 5 6 7
6. Imagine you are a chemist in a perfume factory. A chemical engineer in your company
comes to with a mysterious gas that she says is seeping out of the reaction vessel. She asks
you to identify it. Based on what you learned today, describe the steps you would take to
identify the mysterious element? (3 points)
(note: you may use 3 or more steps)
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
7. List the 5 unknown elements in the order that they were shown. (6 points)
1. _______________ 2. _______________ 3. _______________ 4. _______________
5. _______________
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