Spectra of Gas Discharges

Most common elements in solar spectrum.

(displayed in order of decreasing abundance)

The following images are color coded spectra of various elements undergoing electrical discharge excitation.

The spectra for each element is computed, screen captured and stored as a 784 X 8 pixel JPEG then expanded vertically by your web browser to 784 X 64 pixel. The narrow height is to reduce transmission time, it expands to 64 pixels using HEIGHT=64 option in IMG tag of HTML file. To use these images outside the context of a web browser, you should expand them vertically with image processor.

Note: These images are deep 24 bit color plots, therefore you may need to increase the color depth of your system to view subtle details in these spectra.

Hydrogen

Helium

Oxygen

Carbon

Nitrogen

Neon

Magnesium

Silicon

Sulfur

Iron

Aluminum

Calcium

Argon

Sodium

Krypton

Xenon

For more details return to gas discharge simulation.