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Heat an element in a flame, and it gives out its own colours. Hydrogen gives a few sharp lines, and not a smooth rainbow. In this course we learn how light behaves as a wave and as a stream of particles, how the lines of hydrogen are counted, and how Bohr explained them with energy levels, with numbers that you can check.