EXCITEDSTATE

Excited state

Excitation is an elevation in energy level above an arbitrary baseline energy state. In physics there is a specific technical definition for energy level which is often associated with an atom being excited to an excited state.

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excited state

Noun

  1. any state of a particle or system of particles that has a higher energy than that of its ground state


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