Yelow flame Some flames are yellow because of the presence of a small amount of sodium atoms in the

fuel. Sodium atoms glow yellow very brightly when they are heated; yellow light is their very favorite
color to emit (this particular shade of yellow is called the "sodium D line" because of the electron orbits
involved in the sodium atoms before and after the light is emitted). Sodium street lights are very very
yellow for this reason.

he colder part of a diffusion (incomplete combustion) flame will be red, transitioning to orange, yellow,
and white as the temperature increases as evidenced by changes in the black-body radiation spectrum.
For a given flame's region, the closer to white on this scale, the hotter that section of the flame is. The
transitions are often apparent in fires, in which the color emitted closest to the fuel is white