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Excitation
The process in which an electron absorbs the exact amount of energy and transitions from a lower energy level to a higher energy level within an atom or molecule.
Deexcitation
Ground State
Lowest most stable energy level
Ionisation
when an electron gains enough energy to be completely removed from the atom
ionisation energy
energy required to remove an electron from the ground state
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