Please help! Each color of.light has a specific amount of energy. A
hydrogen atom will absorb and emit red, blue-green, blue, and violet light but not
yellow or orange light. Explain this phenomenon

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Answer:

only certain wavelengths of the light can be absorbed.

There are no transitions in the hydrogen atom that corresponds to the wavelength of yellow or orange light.

Each color corresponds to a particular wavelength. The wavelengths that are observed for a given atom depends on the transitions that are possible for electrons of the atom.

In the hydrogen atom, there is no transition whose wavelength corresponds to the wavelength of yellow or orange light. None of the lines in the hydrogen spectrum has such wavelength.

For instance, yellow light corresponds to 590 nm - 560 nm but this wavelength is missing from the spectrum of hydrogen(crosscheck in the image attached).

As such, we do not see yellow or orange lights in the hydrogen spectrum.

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