Hydrogen emission spectrum: the Balmer series

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The bright-line emission spectrum of hydrogen from 400 to 700 nm: four lines, violet, blue-violet, cyan and red — The visible emission spectrum of hydrogen, the Balmer series, as four colored lines on black on a 400 to 700 nm scale: a violet line, a blue-violet line, a cyan line and a red line. Each is light given off as hydrogen’s electron falls to the second energy level, the lines students connect to the Bohr model.

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Hydrogen: 410.2, 434.0, 486.1, 656.3 nm

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