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The alkali metals cesium (Cs) and rubidium (Rb) were discovered based on their characteristic flame colors. Cesium is named after the sky and rubidium after the gem color. What colors of light do you think them metals give off when heated in a flame?

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well Cs=blue/violet and Rb= red

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