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hydrogen is on a date with iron and not to jinx it but it's going [Hydrogen and iron on a date]

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really really well yeah giggity first they did dinner in a movie and now

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they're back at hydrogen's place where he's decided to show off his extensive [Hydrogen showing iron his figurine collection]

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Star Wars figurine collection hopefully this won't be a deal breaker though they

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move things through the living room and it's just about to start getting hot and

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heavy when the unthinkable happens hydrogen lets off a light emission oh [Hydrogen and Iron sitting on couch and light emission appears]

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how embarrassing well why did it happen well it has nothing to do with the fact

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that he wolf down three carne asada burritos a few hours ago and we can [Hydrogen eating burritos]

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start right there as poor as the timing might have been it's perfectly natural

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and common for an element to emit light in fact it's one of the ways we're able

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to identify elements in certain situation since each element has a

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distinct and unique emission spectrum this is the emission spectrum for [Elements appear on periodic table]

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hydrogen mostly red a little bit of blue and purple in there yeah but what causes

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this emission of light is a drop in energy whenever an electron drops from

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one orbble to a lower one consequently decreasing in energy it emits a [Electron drops an orbital]

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particular type of photon which we see is a different type of color in

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hydrogen's case he just happened to release a photon while on the crouton

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alright so things are awkward until to make hydrogen feel better about the [Iron and hydrogen sitting on couch]

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situation iron emits the light of its own [Iron lets of light emission]

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wowsers it looks like a bowl of fruit loops up in there

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well you'd think that hydrogen's mind would be put at ease after seeing such

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an overtly colorful display but it turns out he's actually a little turned off by [Hydrogen moves across the couch away from iron]

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the whole thing no one said it was pretty in the deep

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end of the dating pool

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