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A neon light (thin hot neon gas in a sealed tube) gives us:
A) a continuous spectrum, since the neon is hot enough to glow.
B) a few bright emission lines, telling us the gas is neon.
C) a continuum, with dark lines identifying the neon atoms are present.
D) a lot of random bright red lines due to the motion of the hot atoms.
E) nothing visible to us, but a hot of infrared lines as heat.



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