Explore Lab Write-up - Atomic Struct/Electromagnetic Radiation & 3 Question Blog
a) The question we're trying to answer was to identify electrons in energy excited stage, while finding certain common metals and identifying unknown ones with a fire test. b)What we did during our investigation was get coated toothpicks that had a coating of the certain metal and put it through a lit bunson burner to find out the color it was giving, the reason we were doing it like this was to identify the metals beforehand, then try and identify the unknown ones by matching the certain color shades. c)My claim was that the first one we did (unknown 1) was sodium the second one (unknown 2) is barium, the third one (unknown 3) strontium and last (unknown 4) was potassium. For my evidence I made a list on paper that showed the substances (copper.etc) matched with the color given on paper. For bold is substance and color is normal font. Calcium - dark orange Burium - yellow green Lithium - red Potassium - peach Sodium - sunset orange strongium - orange red uk(unknown) 1 -...