An electron in an atom's orbital shell, labeled X in the model below, released enough energy to move to a different orbital shel
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The Balmer series refers to the spectral lines of hydrogen, associated to the emission of photons when an electron in the hydrogen atom jumps from a level to the level
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The wavelength associated to each spectral line of the Balmer series is given by:
where is the Rydberg constant for hydrogen, and where
is the initial level of the electron that jumps to the level n = 2.
The first few spectral lines associated to this series are withing the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and their wavelengths are:
656 nm (red, corresponding to the transition )
486 nm (green, )
434 nm (blue, )
410 nm (violet, )
All the following lines lie in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum. The limit of the Balmer series, corresponding to the transition , is at 364.6 nm.