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Chemical Sleuthing

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Students engage in a instructional activity which includes flame tests and the construction of a simple diffraction spectrograph with which to measure sodium ion emissions. They use the Bragg equation to compute the wavelength of the line spectra produced.

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electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetism

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9th - 12th
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Science
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