Lyman series
nameEtymology
Named after the Harvard physicist Theodore Lyman IV, who in 1906 discovered the first line in the spectrum.
Definitions
A hydrogen spectral series of transitions and resulting ultraviolet emission lines of the…
A hydrogen spectral series of transitions and resulting ultraviolet emission lines of the hydrogen atom as an electron goes from n ≥ 2 to n = 1 (where n is the principal quantum number), the lowest energy level of the electron.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for Lyman series. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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