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metals never burn the same color

*EDIT* Actually, ions such as Ca2+, Sr2+, and Li+ burn shades of red that are nearly impossible to differentiate between. In general, this is probably because they release similar amounts of energy when their excited electron returns to its normal state.

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I'm not too sure what you mean by 'due to the metals and non-metals' but I can tell you how the flame test actually works. Although we use this test in Chemistry to identify elements, the explanation behind it is actually physics.

Basically, when an element is heated the electrons become excited, this means that they get more energy and move up an energy level or several energy levels. The electron cannot stay in this new energy level as it is unstable so it drops back down and emits the excess energy in the form of a photon. The photon has a different energy depending on which element the electrons are actually in as different elements have different energy level values. The photons have a different energy so we they must have a different frequency as E = HF (energy=Planck's constant x frequency). As different frequency of light are different colours different elements emit different frequency of photons and therefore different colours of light.

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