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When a substance is burned, the chemical elements that make it up produce various colors. These are not visible to the naked eye in most cases, although some elements produce rather spectacular effects -- copper's bright green being one example.
Spectrography involves burning samples of material, and precise measurement of the colors produced by elements in the material using a spectrograph. Once the elements and their quantities are known, it is a relatively simple matter to determine the kinds of compounds that would have contained them.
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