Question

Chemistry question!

Scientists believe that the bright line spectrum of each element is different because they all have different wavelengths and frequencies, which is true. They also believe that this difference is that there are thousands of different atoms in a tube, so there should be thousands of different frequencies visible.
My question is in a tube, there is only one element which has the same atoms, then why in the above mentioned information, the atoms are different?
Please explain. This information was in my textbook by the way. :)

Answer 1

Have you paraphrased what was in your textbook?
There are many atoms in the tube, but not thousands of different types of atoms. There is something likely wrong with the way you have posed the question.

Answer 2

In my textbook it says, some scientist were confused about why the bright-line spectrum of each element varies. They assumed that this variation causes different wavelengths sand frequencies. Likewise, there are numerous atoms in the tube which each have different frequencies from each other.

This does not make sense to me. Atoms of the same element should have the same bright-line spectrum. Therefore they should each have the same wavelengths and frequencies.

Answer 3

What do you think? @ghuczek

Answer 4

I agree with the way you assess this. It does not seem to make sense to me either.

Answer 5

XD me too

Answer 6

@Abhisar

Answer 7

Can you help me?