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posted by  loveshoes on 6/5/2008 5:53:31 PM  |  status: Live  

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What does the statement that "the energy of the light absorbed by a hydrogen atom is quantized" mean? 
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posted by SamiLiLOnE on 6/5/2008 6:07:36 PM  |  status: Live
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"That made perfect sense. Thank you. "
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To say that energy is quantized means that we compressed the large range of values to a single value. This came about because of the dual nature of light. It acts as both a wave and a particle. The wave is the large range of values while the particle is the single value. Hope that makes sense because this is a confusing concept.

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