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Absorption lines

During a lab mix up, all of the labels on your chemical beakers get dissolved! And the only tool you have to re-identify them is a spectrometer. After passing in one of the now unknown chemicals, you receive the following data:

wave length	intensity (Min threshold of 50)
4026.19	50
4471.48	200
5015.68	100
5875.62	500
5875.97	100
6678.15	100
7065.19	200

Using the records of each elements emissions wavelengths, identify what element this is.

Helium

Carbon

Aluminum

Sulfur

Mercury

NASA

Course: NASA > Unit 2

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