Additionally to the electronic excitation states which are known from atoms, molecules are able to rotate and to vibrate.
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In addition to the electronic excitation states which are known from atoms, molecules exhibit rotational and vibrational modes whose energy levels are quantized.
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Specifically, a photon of this wavelength is emitted when the electron of a hydrogen atom changes its excitation state from n = 3 to n = 2.
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Such state-changes happen very frequently when an electron is captured by an ionised hydrogen atom ( a proton ), and the electron cascades down from some higher excitation state to n = 1.
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By applying the ideas of quantum mechanics to strings it is possible to deduce the different vibrational modes ( excitation states ) of strings, and that each vibrational state appears to be a different particle.
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In the electronic excited state molecules quickly relax to the lowest vibrational level of the lowest electronic excitation state ( Kasha's rule ), and from there can decay to the electronic ground state via photon emission.
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Each of these two states ( technetium-99m and technetium-99 ) qualifies as a different nuclide, illustrating one way that nuclides may differ from isotopes ( an isotope may consist of several different nuclides of different excitation states ).
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Multiple excitation states have been observed for 80 Y and 97 Y . While most of yttrium's isomers are expected to be less stable than their ground state, 78m Y, 84m Y, 85m Y, 96m Y, 98m1 Y, 100m Y, and 102m Y have longer half-lives than their ground states, as these isomers decay by beta decay rather than isomeric transition.