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What is necessary to produce visible light from chemical compounds?

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Answer:

the molecule must contain either pi bonds or atoms with non-bonding orbitals.

Step-by-step explanation:

A non-bonding orbital is a lone pair on, say, oxygen, nitrogen or a halogen.

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