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  • Mar 17, 2008, 05:28 PM
    Patricia21
    How does UV light sensitive ink work using the Bohr-rutherford model of the atom?
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  • Mar 17, 2008, 05:59 PM
    Capuchin
    Well, UV is a higher energy wave than visible light, so the electron can be excited up many energy levels by a single UV photon.

    Then it will spontaneously drop down these energy levels one at a time at a later time, emitting lower energy photons i.e. in the visible.

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