Question

When an electron in the ground state absorbs energy, it goes to a/an ______________ state ?

Answer 1

It goes to an excited state.

When a ground state electron absorbs energy from an incoming photon, it moves to a higher energy level, which is one way of saying that it moved from ground state to an excited state.

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