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Emission spectrum for mercury vapor. The lines result from emissions of those colors by excited mercury atoms. The black areas are wavelengths that are not emitted by mercury. No light is emitted with those wavelength values. The visible light emitted by mercury are the ten colors shown here. |
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Continuous spectrum from white light separated into the colors that make up "white" vixible light. The blue has high energy and the red has low energy. The spectrum has "white" markers to help locate the 400nm , 450 nm, 500 nm , 550 nm , etc. wavelength positions. This spectrum is supposed to be used to estimate the locations of the lines in the mercury spectrum. |