2. What happens when an electron returns to its ground state from its excited state?

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2. What happens when an electron returns to
its ground state from its excited state?

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It releases its energy.

MoritzLost answered Nov 25, 2020

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It releases energy in the form of light. It jumps from the outermost shell back into the inner shell it's mostly associated with.

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