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What happens when an electron moves to a higher energy level?

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It absorbs energy and becomes excited

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When an electron moves to a higher energy level, it absorbs energy. Since the electron in the lower energy level has lower energy, so to move into a higher energy level it would require more energy hence it would absorb energy to equalize the higher energy

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