Transcript of Using a Spectral Tube

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If all of our astrophysical objects or anything that we’re looking at


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were made up of one element, this would just be so easy.


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But we don’t.


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So we have to do experiments on Earth like this 


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to prove


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what we’re looking at looks like what we are thinking we’re looking at.


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So, in here is argon.


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If we turn it on here ...


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it glows this really pretty purple


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and then, if we look at it with a spectroscope,


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it shows us a very specific fingerprint


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to argon.