Electron Dynamics vs. Heat

The concept of temperature does not apply to a single molecule.

Temperature is the motion of atoms or molecules in relation to other atoms or molecules. Temperature of one atom or molecule is sort of like one hand clapping.

Forgot my footnote:

1. Hydrogen and Helium are the 'oddball' elements, since their only shell holds only two electrons. Hydrogen acts as a Conductor, not a semiconductor, and Helium is a Noble Gas, despite not having 8 electrons in its outer shell. Aside from those two, it's best to remember that with Outer Shells:
• 1-3 electrons = Conductor
• 4 electrons = Semiconductor
• 5-7 electrons = Insulator
• 8 electrons = Noble Gas

OK thanks. Hope Klulas understands it

I am betting money that 'K' will respond,..... with another question.

Odds maker in Vegas has it and 1.7 to 1

Well, you know that Hope brand springs never wear out. That's why they say "Hope Springs, Eternal." Right?

(I GOTTA try to be funny today, I'm having one of those 'Pagliacci' moods for some reason.)

(Look it up, I'm in no mood to explain the joke this time.)

Wow, it felt like a crash course. I thank you both for sharing.

GA.

GA for the whole thing, but this phrase alone was worth a GA: "... and one side order of 'word salad.' "

Fe is an element.

More like illiterate drivel or babbling of an idiot.

Agreed, but everybody needs to report this doofus until he is banished.

I'm in.

I can only speak for myself.......you ask annoying questions without doing a second of research, study up before looking for someone else to chase down your hare-brained ideas and theories

Tornado, Fred and I and others are just members, that is all. As members, we are entitled to our considered opinions.

Many people come here and ask reasonable, intelligent questions, ask for help with a technical problem and even work related problems.

Students also come here and ask for help. If they are forthcoming about their motives many members spend LOTS of their valuable time helping them.

Tornado is a very intelligent man and also offers help to many who come here with genuine problems, even those who need homework help.

Then, there are the trolls. They come here to amuse themselves at the expense of the forum members who are serious about the forum and its value.

They waste member's time by asking inane, ignorant and uninformed questions, not to learn, but rather to amuse themselves by watching responses to their childish trolling.

They never bother to perform any research using the usual, widely accepted practice of an internet search. Or, by reading easily available publications in existence already. If they did 99% of their elementary questions could be answered that way.

You are such a troll! You are simply wasting the forum's time and resources playing your silly games.

My considered opinion is that you should be banned.

I have discussed this before, the subject of politeness on the forum. I understand your concern, but it is a frequent occurrence that students come looking for answers without studying and others come looking for help without doing any homework, like consulting a handbook or searching online, like we do. Lyn, Tornado, Fred ski and a few others are very regular contributors so after seeing this kind of lack of initiative they get testy. Yes, they might be more polite....but you might return the expected courtesy by formulating a sensible question. You did not. Your question showed that you do not yet grasp certain fundamentals of science, namely the concept of temperature and the impossibility of saying with any certainty what an individual particle will do under given conditions of changing external energy states. So please understand, we love to give answers that help and show off what we've learnef, but at least show us some respect by thinking it through before you post.

best of luck on your promising career, these might help

This gets into some very complicated solid state and material science theory but I'll try to reduce this to some of the critical fundamentals.

The topic your asking about is known as black-body radiation. Gustav Kirchoff (yes, that Kirchoff of network circuit theory) was the first to identify and name black-body radiation as a broad spectrum of light emitted from an object based on its temperature. Kirchoff did not know how the lattice electrons of a solid achieved this spectrum of light, just that a repeatable spectrum shape identified the objects temperature. That window of knowledge of the mechanics producing this spectrum shape was opened by the revelations and convoluted mathematics of quantum mechanics. I believe it was Max Planck who performed the first collection of theoretical derivations.

This is not a topic that can be easily explained in a thread on an engineering forum. A solid foundation in undergraduate Physics is needed to properly discuss this topic. As I have mentioned before, you ask some very good questions that are obviously way outside your skill set to provide a good answer.

The short but not very sweet answer to your question is that the electrons randomly take kinematic energy from the nucleus and get bumped up into an unoccupied orbital of the lattice. When the electron drops again back down to the lower "rest state" orbital a photon of that energy is released.

Lol, I have never seen so many off topic comments in one thread. And this one will probably add to the list. But that's okay, because I think the original question should be on that list too. As I said originally, Iron is an element. So as soon as he said "say I have a molecule of Iron" that should have been the end of the discussion.

• An isolated atom of iron cannot conduct electricity, as it would be surrounded by vacuum. In order to conduct electricity, it has to be attached to other conductive species in the form of a crystal lattice. The concept of applying a voltage across a single atom is absurd.
• A photon is emitted whenever an electron in a higher orbit drops to its standard orbit, having been moved previously into the higher orbit by heating.