Chemistry
What is the Difference between Continuous Spectrum and Line Spectrum?
the Major difference between line spectrum and continuous spectrum is that a continuous spectrum contains all the wavelengths in a given range and generates when both adsorption and emission spectra are put together while the line spectrum contains only a few wavelengths and generates either in adsorption or emission.
| Continuous spectrum | Line spectrum |
| It is produced by white light. | It is produced by vaporization of salt or gas in discharge tube. |
| It is charachteristic of white light. | It is charachteristic of atom. |
| It is mixed up having no line of demarcation. | It is in the form of definite and sharp line. |
| There are no dark spaces between colours. | There are dark spaces between colours. |
| Any shite light may give some colours. | It depends upon nature of salt or gas. |
