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Chemistry chp 3
Arrangemens of electrons in the atom
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Quantisation | an electron in an atom is restricted to having only certain values or energy levels |
| an energy level | the fixed energy value that an electron in an atom may have |
| the ground state | in the atom the electrons occupy the lowest available energy level |
| the excited state | the electrons occupy higher energy levels than those available in the ground state |
| The difference in energy between two energy levels - equation | E2-E1=hf |
| emission line spectrum | a series of narrow lines |
| spectrometer | instruments used to study the emission line spectrum |
| lithium | crimson |
| potassium | lilac |
| copper | blue-green |
| sodium | yellow |
| PIR | Paschen infa red |
| LUV | Lyman Ultra Violet |
| AAS | Atomic Absorption Spectrometry |
| Heinsenbergs' Uncertainty Principle | It is impossible to measure at the same time both the velocity and the position of an electron |
| Orbital | a region in space within which there is a high probability of finding an electron |
| sublevel | a subdivision of a main energy level and consists of one or more orbitals of the same energy |