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Author Topic: please help: urgent; why don't all molecules fluoresce?  (Read 2036 times)
taaha
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« on: May 28, 2011, 03:13:58 AM »

why isn't the phenomenon of fluorescence observed in all molecules? further can anyone explain how fluorescence is maintained ??
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« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2011, 06:30:15 AM »

Because electrons in all atoms are not bound loosely, and can't be separated from it unless a large amount of energy is give to them.
one more thing, it is not necessary that an electron will transition to the ground state by releasing a photon of detectable wavelength.

if u have understood my explanation to your first question then u might have guessed that we need an energy source which can provide continuous energy to the atom so that the electron first transitions to an excited state by absorbing a photon and then goes back to the ground state by emitting a photon.
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