I can infer the liquid unknown was Lithium because they both reacted very similar (bright pink-red), and the solid unknown was sodium becasue they both had an emediate bright orange, opaque flame. This test should be used for identifying unknown elements becasue when the substnace is introduced to heat, the atoms in he element gets excited. When they get excited, the electrons from the atom jump to a higher orbitals, then fall back down to the lower levels where they started. When they fall, they release energy in the form of light. When the light energy is given off, it is given off as a spectrum of lines, but they are not visable. The color of the flame is all of the colors of the spectrum combined. I am sure of my identifycation because
