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LESSON 2 · What Everything Is Made Of

PAUSE TO THINK

Why do old street lamps glow that flat orange-yellow?

Sodium vapor D-line

Excite sodium and its electrons fall back across the same energy gap every time, releasing photons of one pure yellow. It's the exact fingerprint sodium leaves as dark lines in starlight — just seen glowing instead of missing.

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